Ray Strong was born in 1905 in Corvallis, Oregon. As a native of the Northwest he began painting with Clyde Keller of Portland, Oregon, early in his high school years on Sundays, rain or shine. They worked from Columbia Slough to Mt. Hood.

He studied later in California at the old Mark Hopkins, site of the California School of Fine Arts, and from there went to the Art Students League in New York, studying mainly with Frank Vincent DuMond.

On returning to California in the early thirties, he organized, studied and taught at the Art Students League of SF with Maynard Dixon, Frank Van Sloun and George Post. Taking over the old Beaux Arts Galleries on Maiden Lane, they formed an Artist's Cooperative Gallery.
Ray Strong has exhibited at the Macbeth Gallery, New York, Cowie Galleries, Los Angeles, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, De Young Museum, San Francisco, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Gumps, Graves Galleries, Maxwell Galleries, City of Paris Rotunda in San Francisco, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art and The Easton Gallery, Montecito.

Commissions include:

Keene Valley Parish Murals, New York

Post Office Murals, San Gabriel, California

Decater, Texas

Paintings in Lassen, Rainier, and White Sands National Parks

Golden Gate Bridge under construction, White House, Washington DC

Prehistoric Backgrounds, Bacon Hall, University of California

Kudu Background, Academy of Sciences, SF.

Murals, Charts and Panels, Junior Museum of Palo Alto,

Bird Backgrounds Santa Barbara and Morro Bay Museums of Natural History.
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