Don Gray paintings

Pastels, still-lifes. "I drew a series of fruit and vegetable pastel still-lifes on commission for the restaurant at the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia. Many of them involved the chair on which this cabbage rests. Like all things, cabbages are beautiful, very full, wonderful forms. They are very three-dimensional, both in the core cabbage and surrounding leaves. Clearly, a cabbage, with or without leaves is a 'mandala,' a symbol of centering, of focus, a symbol of the 'self' in psychological terms."