“Gray Foy: Drawings 1941–1975”

Gray Foy (1922–2012) was better known in his lifetime as a social butterfly: A fixture of midcentury New York high society, who hosted soirées with guest lists that included the biggest names in art and literature. But he was also an artist who began showing his work within a few years of his arrival in NYC in 1947. After his death, a cache of previously unknown pencils drawings were discovered in his home. Intimately scaled and painstakingly worked (a piece could take months to complete), they featured Surrealistic images whose stylistically borrowings ran the gamut from Albrecht Dürer to Salvador Dalì. After years of lying dormant in various desk drawings, Foy’s remarkable images are finally seeing the light of day.