Don Gray paintings

Desert landscapes, paintings. "Century plants grow for years with only a cluster of waist-high, blue-green arms ending in thorned bayonet points. Then, in a final burst of vitality, like the transforming flame of trees in autumn, the century plant sends up, in a few short days, a twenty foot-tall stalk, not unlike an asparagus, that eventually develops small flowering branches. Then it dies. Young century plants are seen nearby on the desert floor."