HISTORICAL REFERENCE

Gregory has been inspired by masters throughout art history.

His early landscapes of the 1980s owed their debt to George Innes, Martin Johnson Heade and Albert Pinkham Ryder, combined with the powerful pull of the California landscape to which the artist traveled on a daily basis between the Sierra foothills and the Central Valley, a flat horizon of landscape as far as the eye can see.

His still lifes which preceded the silos, are infused with his appreciation for the Spanish masters, Zurburan and Sanchez Cotan.