DeLoss McGraw

For the last 30+ years DeLoss McGraw’s paintings have consisted of colorful renditions of the written word using literature and poetry as a reverence point.  Working with primary and other bright colors, McGraw creates fluid, fanciful compositions. often influenced by folk art,  which tells a story or refers to a literary passage.

The artist is in major collections, including the Metropolitan Museum, Harvard University; Bodleian Collection of Oxford University in England, among many others, and has exhibited world wide.

DeLoss McGraw, Gouache, Collage, a white figure dressed in yellow with green hair on a blue background

DeLoss McGraw
Cyrano de Bergerac Composes a Love Poem
Gouache and Collage
4 ¼” x 5 ½”

DeLoss McGraw, Gouache, Collage, a white figure dressed in yellow with green hair on a blue background wearing a red hat

DeLoss McGraw
Cyrano – I Order You to Hold Your Tongues
Gouache and Collage
4 ¼” x 6”

DeLoss McGraw, Gouache, Collage, a white figure dressed in yellow with green hair on a blue background

DeLoss McGraw
Cyrano – Standing on a Chair, his Arms Folded
Gouache and Collage
5” x 8 ½”

DeLoss McGraw, Gouache, Collage,an image of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt in green as a vase for a bouquet on a red background

DeLoss McGraw
Eleanor and Franklin
Gouache and Collage
22 ¼” x 30”