Gray Foy, Artist and Avatar of a Gilded Age, Dies at 90
For decades, Mr. Foy [pictured, right] was a quiet if supremely capable avatar of the city’s gracious, aesthetically minded, boldface-named social milieu, a latter-day Gilded Age that flourished in New York in the years before the Stonewall uprising and for some time after, of which Truman Capote was perhaps the best-known embodiment.
“He was the last of a breed,” said Joel Kaye [pictured, left], a longtime friend who married Mr. Foy in Manhattan last year and is his only immediate survivor. “A breed of person who was educated and interested in everything that was artistic. He knew every piece of classical music, he knew the words to every song until 1965, he knew architecture, he knew cooking, and he knew the art of conversation.”
(Obit source: The New York Times)