CHRONOLOGY<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Eileen Gray’s earliest artistic training began at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She continued to study painting in Paris and also began learning about lacquer. After moving to Paris permanently in 1906, she became one of the first European designers to adapt traditional Asian lacquer techniques to contemporary Western taste. Gray was an important contributor to French decorative arts during the first quarter of the twentieth century. By the mid-1920s, largely because of her connection with the Romanian architect Jean Badovici, Gray’s design thinking underwent a radical change as she pursued a career as a modern designer and architect. The house called E 1027, completed in 1929 when Gray was fifty-one years old, was both her first major commission as an architect and a summation of her individual approach to modernism that would develop in a range of other projects that were largely unbuilt.<\/p>\n
Scroll down to explore the timeline of Eileen Gray’s life and work on view in the exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div>BEGINNINGS: 1878\u20131918<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>DESIGNER: 1919\u20131929<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>ARCHITECT-DESIGNER: 1930\u20131976<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>CHRONOLOGY<\/h5><\/div>Eileen Gray’s earliest artistic training began at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She continued to study painting in Paris and also began learning about lacquer. After moving to Paris permanently in 1906, she became one of the first European designers to adapt traditional Asian lacquer techniques to contemporary Western taste. Gray was an important contributor to French decorative arts during the first quarter of the twentieth century. By the mid-1920s, largely because of her connection with the Romanian architect Jean Badovici, Gray’s design thinking underwent a radical change as she pursued a career as a modern designer and architect. The house called E 1027, completed in 1929 when Gray was fifty-one years old, was both her first major commission as an architect and a summation of her individual approach to modernism that would develop in a range of other projects that were largely unbuilt.<\/p>\n
Scroll down to explore the timeline of Eileen Gray’s life and work on view in the exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>BEGINNINGS: 1878\u20131918<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>DESIGNER: 1919\u20131929<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>ARCHITECT-DESIGNER: 1930\u20131976<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"Installation](\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/eileengray\/files\/2020\/05\/Entire-timeline-view.jpg\" "\\"Entire-timeline-view\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>BEGINNINGS: 1878\u20131918<\/h1><\/div>BEGINNINGS: 1878\u20131918<\/h5><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t1878<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t![\"Vintage](\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/eileengray\/files\/2020\/04\/Gray-family-portrait.jpg\" "\\"Gray-family-portrait\\"")
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Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith is born on August 9 in the family residence of Brownswood, in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland. She is the youngest child of James Maclaren Smith, a painter, and Eveleen Pounden.<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1879\u201395<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t![\"A](\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/eileengray\/files\/2020\/04\/Eileen-Gray-NMIEG-2000-227.jpg\" "\\"Eileen-Gray-NMIEG-2000-227\\"")
<\/a><\/div><\/div>![\"Photograph](\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/eileengray\/files\/2020\/04\/Eileen-and-Thora-Gray-NMIEG-2000-222.jpg\" "\\"Eileen-and-Thora-Gray-NMIEG-2000-222\\"")
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Eileen spends her childhood in both Enniscorthy, Ireland, and the family residence in South Kensington, London. She takes frequent trips abroad to France, Europe, and Egypt, among other places.<\/p>\n
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1900<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t![\"Sepia-toned](\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/eileengray\/files\/2020\/05\/Eileen-Gray-1898-1899.jpg\")
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Gray’s first stay in Paris is during a visit to the Exposition Universelle with her mother.<\/div>\n <\/p>\n
She enrolls in the Slade School of Fine Art in London to study painting. Through her visits to the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum), she is acquainted with Asian lacquer.<\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1901<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t![\"Eileen](\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/eileengray\/files\/2020\/04\/Eileen-Gray-Lacquer-Tools-NMI.jpg\")
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Gray begins studying lacquer with Dean Charles in his workshop at 92 Dean Street in Soho.<\/p>\n
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1902<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\r\n\t\t\tGray moves to Paris with a group of friends to study art at the Acad\u00e9mie Colarossi, in Montparnasse. Gray, Kathleen Bruce, and Gray’s friend Jessie Gavin live in an apartment at 3, rue Joseph-Bara, in the 6th arrondissement. Gray also studies at the Acad\u00e9mie Julian on the rue du Dragon.<\/p>\n
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She exhibits a watercolor called\u00a0Derniers rayons de soleil d’une belle journ\u00e9e\u00a0<\/em>(Last Rays of Sunshine on a Beautiful Day) at the 120th Salon de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais, in the Grand Palais.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
1905<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t![\"Sepia-toned](\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/eileengray\/files\/2020\/05\/Eileen-Gray-1905-10.jpg\")
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Gray exhibits a painting called\u00a0Femme au sablier\u00a0<\/em>(Woman with Hourglass) at the 123rd Salon de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais, in the Grand Palais.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Gray returns to London to see her sick mother; she resumes studying at the Slade School and at D. Charles’s lacquer workshop.<\/p>\n
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She contracts severe typhoid and goes to Algeria to recover.<\/p>\n
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1906<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\r\n\t\t\tGray settles in Paris and buys an apartment the following year at 21, rue Bonaparte, where she will live the rest of her life.<\/p>\n
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1908\u20139<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\r\n\t\t\t
Eileen Gray’s earliest artistic training began at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She continued to study painting in Paris and also began learning about lacquer. After moving to Paris permanently in 1906, she became one of the first European designers to adapt traditional Asian lacquer techniques to contemporary Western taste. Gray was an important contributor to French decorative arts during the first quarter of the twentieth century. By the mid-1920s, largely because of her connection with the Romanian architect Jean Badovici, Gray’s design thinking underwent a radical change as she pursued a career as a modern designer and architect. The house called E 1027, completed in 1929 when Gray was fifty-one years old, was both her first major commission as an architect and a summation of her individual approach to modernism that would develop in a range of other projects that were largely unbuilt.<\/p>\n
Scroll down to explore the timeline of Eileen Gray’s life and work on view in the exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div>
BEGINNINGS: 1878\u20131918<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> DESIGNER: 1919\u20131929<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> ARCHITECT-DESIGNER: 1930\u20131976<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> Eileen Gray’s earliest artistic training began at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. She continued to study painting in Paris and also began learning about lacquer. After moving to Paris permanently in 1906, she became one of the first European designers to adapt traditional Asian lacquer techniques to contemporary Western taste. Gray was an important contributor to French decorative arts during the first quarter of the twentieth century. By the mid-1920s, largely because of her connection with the Romanian architect Jean Badovici, Gray’s design thinking underwent a radical change as she pursued a career as a modern designer and architect. The house called E 1027, completed in 1929 when Gray was fifty-one years old, was both her first major commission as an architect and a summation of her individual approach to modernism that would develop in a range of other projects that were largely unbuilt.<\/p>\n Scroll down to explore the timeline of Eileen Gray’s life and work on view in the exhibition.<\/p>\n<\/div> BEGINNINGS: 1878\u20131918<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> DESIGNER: 1919\u20131929<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> ARCHITECT-DESIGNER: 1930\u20131976<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/p>\n Eileen spends her childhood in both Enniscorthy, Ireland, and the family residence in South Kensington, London. She takes frequent trips abroad to France, Europe, and Egypt, among other places.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/p>\n Gray begins studying lacquer with Dean Charles in his workshop at 92 Dean Street in Soho.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Gray moves to Paris with a group of friends to study art at the Acad\u00e9mie Colarossi, in Montparnasse. Gray, Kathleen Bruce, and Gray’s friend Jessie Gavin live in an apartment at 3, rue Joseph-Bara, in the 6th arrondissement. Gray also studies at the Acad\u00e9mie Julian on the rue du Dragon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She exhibits a watercolor called\u00a0Derniers rayons de soleil d’une belle journ\u00e9e\u00a0<\/em>(Last Rays of Sunshine on a Beautiful Day) at the 120th Salon de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais, in the Grand Palais.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/p>\n Gray exhibits a painting called\u00a0Femme au sablier\u00a0<\/em>(Woman with Hourglass) at the 123rd Salon de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Artistes Fran\u00e7ais, in the Grand Palais.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gray returns to London to see her sick mother; she resumes studying at the Slade School and at D. Charles’s lacquer workshop.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She contracts severe typhoid and goes to Algeria to recover.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Gray settles in Paris and buys an apartment the following year at 21, rue Bonaparte, where she will live the rest of her life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>CHRONOLOGY<\/h5><\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/div>BEGINNINGS: 1878\u20131918<\/h1><\/div>
BEGINNINGS: 1878\u20131918<\/h5><\/div>
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![\"Black-and-white](\"https:\/\/exhibitions.bgc.bard.edu\/eileengray\/files\/2020\/05\/Gray-in-the-family-car.jpg\" "\\"Gray-in-the-family-car\\"")
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