Artist
Centurion, 1906–1951
Born 14 July 1857 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 11 November 1951 in Old Lyme, Connecticut
Buried Laurel Hill Cemetery
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Proposed by B. West Clinedinst and Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
Elected 3 February 1906 at age forty-eight
Century Memorial
Clifford Grayson was a member of the Club for forty-five years. He was born in Philadelphia and studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts in Paris. He also studied with Gérôme and Bonnat while in France.
He was a first-class painter. He won the Temple Gold Medal and in 1886 a $2,000 prize from the American Art Gallery in New York. Some of his paintings now hang in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, in the Art Institute in Chicago and in the Art Club in Philadelphia.
He lived in a lovely old house, Cliffwood, at Old Lyme, Connecticut, and there he died at the age of ninety-four. In the later years he came to the Century but seldom. He had an aura of gentleness and peace.
George W. Martin
1951/1952 Century Association Yearbook
