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Hi, I know you have documentation about Raymond Rice’s mosaic piece on the exterior of the Fresno Air Terminal, which is still extant. However, I just found a period photo of the interior of the air terminal, which appears to show another mosaic work (only partially visible). This work is not currently visible, though I […]
These film acetates or “cels” are single drawings from the animated films Ray made in the 1960s and 70s. These 87 cels are all that are left of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings used to produce over 40 experimental art films. The films use this traditional hand-drawn technique, as well as time lapse and stop […]
In 2005 Gene Tepper remembered his lifelong friend, Ray Rice, in a series of vignettes: Zoot Suit; Elkhart, Indiana; New York 1940; New Orleans 1941; New York 1945; Lucky Road. Zoot Suit Some of the details of our first meeting are a bit hazy, but not so, the crystal clear image of Ray rising […]
Most of Ray’s sculptures date from the 1940s, and then the 1950s as part of architectural commissions. There are more mosaic sculpture commissions here and some noteworthy relationships with Miriam’s sculptures here.
During the last 25 years of Ray’s life he focussed on pen and ink drawing, not exclusively but extensively. Included here are several of his notebooks from that time. During this period he was writing poetry and journal entries also, some of them deep in the night when he couldn’t sleep. He wrote, illustrated, and […]
Ray taught for many decades in the studio, at the college, at the Mendocino Art Center, in Japan and Oklahoma. He taught mosaics, painting, drawing, sculpture. A working artist was able to earn a living from teaching, commissions, and sales. It was never enough, but as it turned out, just enough.
These paintings were painted in the 1980s and 90s when this photo was taken. Ray experimented with oil on wood of all shapes and sizes, some found and some created. Assemblage features in many of the pieces. He painted on wooden strips from 6″ long (300 of them!) to 16′ long (very difficult to photograph).
From these few slides it would seem that Ray’s more political paintings were in oils, but not always…
These oil paintings were made in the 1970s-80s. They were inspired by the imagery in Ray’s animated films from the 1960s-70s. Check out the film acetates for some of the original sources.
Largely plein air watercolors of the Mendocino landscape from the 70s and 80s. The house stands on the high part of the low part of the town of Mendocino with a 200 degree view of the Pacific Ocean. The studio, a wooden shed out back, was small and it was quite possible to be drawn […]