John Gray
Date1896
Artist
Charles Haslewood Shannon
(British painter and printmaker, 1863–1937)
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionssheet: 14 7/16 × 10 7/16 in. (36.7 × 26.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-653
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextJohn Gray met Shannon early in his career as a writer in 1888. He contributed several poems to The Dial. Gray was a close friend of Oscar Wilde’s and is believed to have been the model for his Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). In 1901 he was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. He continued to write after his ordination.Shannon depicts Gray in a moment of thought, his head resting on his hand, with the torso merely suggested by a few rapidly drawn lines.
