[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 167 (Tuesday, October 9, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S6731]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                        REMEMBERING RICHARD GRAY

 Ms. DUCKWORTH. Mr. President, today I wish to honor the life 
of Richard Gray.
  Richard, 89, died in his sleep on Wednesday, May 16, 2018, at his 
Gold Coast home in Chicago.
  Richard was the dean of Chicago art dealers, a collector, and 
benefactor whose wide-ranging intellect, taste, and support helped many 
of the city's most celebrated cultural institutions.
  Richard prevailed in the bidding wars that brought Sue, the famed T. 
rex, to the Field Museum, and he helped preserve the Farnsworth House, 
the architectural jewel in Plano, IL, designed by Ludwig Mies van der 
Rohe.
  He dealt in works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Willem de Kooning, David 
Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Nevelson, Picasso, Jackson Pollock, 
and Mark Rothko. Today, the Richard Gray Gallery which he opened in 
1963, operates from 875 N. Michigan and Manhattan. The gallery has a 
warehouse on West Carroll Avenue in Chicago and also deals in Old 
Masters.
  He and his wife, the former Mary Kay Lackritz, were supporters of the 
Chicago Humanities Festival, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Arts 
Club of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Goodman Theatre, 
WFMT, WTTW, and the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, 
among other institutions.
  He was born at Woodlawn Hospital, the middle of seven kids of Pearl 
and Edward Gray. His father, a native of Siedliszcze, Poland, came to 
America alone as a teenager and helped to start a business in 
Providence, RI, cleaning buildings in that then-sooty city, eventually 
coming to Chicago.
  Richard studied architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-
Champaign.
  Richard is survived by his wife Mary, his son Paul and his wife 
Dedrea, his daughter Jennifer, his son Harry, brothers Robert and 
Melvin, five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
  Richard was a lover of the arts and a dear friend. I am proud to 
stand here today to honor his legacy.

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