PAUL CAREY (American, 1904-2001)
Paul Twohig Carey was born in Palo Alto in 1904, to George J. and Lucy Twohig Carey. His paternal Grandfather, Patrick Carey (1828-1927), immigrated with his family to California circa 1872 from Limerick, Ireland, and ranched in the Calaveras Hills in the East Bay. Carey grew up in a home on Lytton avenue in Palo Alto, near Stanford University and had his his first art lessons from a neighbor, John Stanton, who was dean of painting at the Hopkins Institute in San Francisco. Carey attended Palo Alto schools, the University of Oregon, and the San Francisco School of Fine Arts. He lived and worked in the Bay Area for his entire life, painting and operating a graphics design studio in San Franciso, Logan & Carey. His wife, Stanleigh White Carey, was a pianist. He diedon July 17, 2001, at the age of 96.
