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Ray McCarty |
 Raised in the mountains of northern Utah, Ray’s first paintings were sketches of the American West inspired in part by his outlaw ancestry, Butch Cassidy’s McCarty gang.
Ray graduated from the
University of Utah with
a degree in fine art. As
a student Ray studied the great masters in Spain and France and his work began to show the distinct influences of
Modigliani, Renoir and
Toulouse-Lautrec. Women in Victorian settings began to take precedence over the cowboys and
Indians of his earlier Western paintings. His experimentation for a brief period in non-objective art provided the freedom of technique that contributed to his unique style.
During the early 1970s,
McCarty relocated to Las
Vegas. He was acutely
aware of the city's
renegade past and
fascinated with its
brash, glitzy attitude
and began to paint
scenes from the town's
early gambling saloons. |
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