Paper, Line, Color: Percy Grainger as a Visual Artist
Artistic, creative, and innovative, Percy Grainger was very much a multifaceted artist. In addition to his work as a musician and composer, Grainger drew and painted from an early age and was a talented visual artist. The historic Percy Grainger Home and Studio, where the composer lived and worked from 1921 until his death in 1961, remains furnished much as it was during his lifetime. The Percy Grainger Society manages the house offering tours, programs and events.
The exhibition, Paper, Line, Color: Percy Grainger as a Visual Artist, seeks to showcase the range of Grainger’s work as an artist while sharing his interests, inspiration, and working process. On display, objects from the PGS collection will include childhood drawings, paintings, sheet music, and prototypes for many of his graphics, alongside samples of beadwork and embroidery that reveal Grainger’s creative range and his appreciation of folk art from cultures around the world.
