JOSEPH E . GREY II (1927 - )  Raised in rural Ohio, Grey earned a masters degree from the Columbus College of Art and Design . His career as a painter peaked in 1958 when he won the prestigious Emily Lowe painting competition in New York, the year after Hughie Lee-Smith . His 1958 watercolor Bull and Fighter is illustrated in Cedric Dover's American Negro Art . Grey then went on to pursue a career in advertising, and was an award-winning art director for over 40 years . Grey's watercolors have also been shown extensively with the National Watercolor Society .

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