Joseph Gray

Joseph Gray was a British painter and printmaker. He worked as an illustrator for Dundee Courier until the outbreak of World War I, whereupon he served as an artist and journalist in the 4th (Dundee) Battalion. He was discharged for medical reason in 1916 but continued to produce war images for the British newspaper "The Graphic." His illustrations captured the horrors and urgency of war so well they caught the attention of the Imperial War Museum, which purchased several of his drawing and commissioned a painting he would ultimately call "The Ration Party." Following the war, Gray produced more tranquil views, such as landscapes and marine scenes.