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Nicolete Gray
Born
Nicolete Binyon
(1911-07-20)20 July 1911
England
Died
8 June 1997(1997-06-08) (aged 85)
London, England
Alma mater
University of Oxford
Occupation(s)
Art scholar, historian
Spouse
Basil Gray
Parent(s)
Cicely Margaret Powell [1]
Relatives
Helen Binyon (sister) Margaret Binyon (sister) T. J. Binyon (cousin)[2]
Nicolete Gray (sometimes Nicolette Gray) (20 July 1911–8 June 1997)[1] was a British scholar of art and lettering. She was the youngest daughter of the poet, dramatist and art scholar Laurence Binyon and his wife, writer, editor and translator Cicely Margaret Pryor Powell.[3] In 1933, she married Basil Gray (1904–1989), with whom she had five children, two sons and three daughters, including Camilla Gray.[1]
She attended St Delilah's School where she won a scholarship to Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford to read History in 1929.[1]
In 1936 she curated the touring exhibition Abstract and Concrete, the first showing of abstract art, and of the work of Mondrian, in England.[4]
She taught at London's Central School of Art and Design 1964–81, where, with Nicholas Biddulph, she created the Central Lettering Record, an archive of lettering in every medium.
Her books include Nineteenth century ornamented types and title pages (Faber & Faber 1938; 2nd edition, as Nineteenth century ornamented typefaces, 1976), Jacob's Ladder: a Bible picture book from Anglo-Saxon and 12th Century English MSS (1949), Lettering on Buildings (1960), Lettering as Drawing: The Moving Line and Lettering as Drawing: Contour and Silhouette (both 1970), and A History of Lettering (Phaidon, 1976).
She died in London on 8 June 1997.[1]
^ abcdeBarker, Nicolas (13 June 1997). "Obituary: Nicolete Gray". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022.
^"T. J. Binyon". The Independent. 13 October 2004. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022.
^Spalding, Frances (2004). "Gray (née Binyon), Nicolete Mary". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/66078. Retrieved 16 January 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Green, Christopher; Wright, Barnaby, eds. (2012). Mondrian / Nicholson in Parallel. London: Courtauld Gallery. ISBN 978-1-90737232-2.
NicoleteGray (sometimes Nicolette Gray) (20 July 1911–8 June 1997) was a British scholar of art and lettering. She was the youngest daughter of the poet...
Margaret Powell, with whom he had three daughters, including the artist NicoleteGray. Moved by the casualties of the British Expeditionary Force in 1914...
capitals rapidly began to appear in many design manuals as a model. NicoleteGray commented that in the early twentieth century "it was taught in all...
keeper of Oriental art at the British Museum, and the calligraphy expert NicoleteGray. She had two sisters Cecilia and Sophy and two brothers Edmund and Marius...
by Leslie Martin in Modernist style. She left her art collection to NicoleteGray. Trelogan, Cherrie. "Sutherland, Helen Christian". Oxford Dictionary...
more international Abstract and Concrete exhibition was organized by NicoleteGray including work by Piet Mondrian, Joan Miró, Barbara Hepworth and Ben...
Typophilia. pp. 92–5. ISBN 9789607285201. Gray, Nicolete (1977). Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces. Gray, Nicolete (1980). "Slab-serif type design in England...
of Asia at the British Museum is named after Gray. In 1933 Basil Gray married the calligrapher Nicolete Mary Binyon (1911–1997), daughter of Laurence...
slab-serif is a question that is unlikely to be ever confirmed, but NicoleteGray felt that "it seems probable" as his is the first foundry with a surviving...
was overseen by a typography panel including the lettering historian NicoleteGray. A typeface for the Festival, Festival Titling, was specially commissioned...
Conference held. 15 February: Exhibition Abstract and Concrete, curated by NicoleteGray, opens at 41 St Giles', prior to touring England. It is the first showing...
in Thorne's specimen of 1803 are not yet true fat faces, only bold. NicoleteGray in her book Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces describes the Fry...
Graphic Arts, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, 1969. Nash, Ray and NicoleteGray, Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces, Faber & Faber, 1976. Guide...
throughout his career: Stanley Morison, Gerrit Noordzij, Rosemary Sassoon, NicoleteGray, John Dreyfus... Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), is...
Sizes, Styles, and Prices of Plain Printing Types. Century. p. 101. Gray, Nicolete (1938). XIXth Century Ornamented Types and Title Pages. London: Faber...
Elegies: Lycidas, Adonais, Thyris (1899) The Song-Story of Aucassin and Nicolete translated by Andrew Lang (1900) The Boke off the Revelacion off Sanct...
(2nd ed.). Haarlem: Stichting Museum Enschedé. p. 33. ISBN 9789070024130. Gray, Nicolete (1977). Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces. Kelly, Rob Roy (1963)...
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