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George Howell Gay

George Howell Gay (1858 - 1931) was active/lived in New York, Wisconsin.  George Gay is known for Marine-surf, coastal scene, landscape painting.

George H. Gay was well known for his watercolor landscapes, seascapes and paintings of rivers and ships, mostly along the shores of New England. Gay also painted snowscapes, but these are scarcer. It is unusual to find an oil painting by this artist, as he worked mainly in watercolor. Some of his works display a tonalist aesthetic.

He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 2, 1858, and lived in Chicago and then in 1889, settled in Bronxville, New York. Gay was a pupil of Paul Brown and Henry Elkins in Chicago.

He is known to have exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1890; Boston Art Club, 1890-1900; and Boston Art Club, 1897.

Shortly before his death in 1931, George Gay's address in 1929 was known to be 100 Kraft Ave., Bronxville, NY.

Sources:Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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Keywords and Quick Facts for George Howell Gay


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Easel Painting
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art MediaArt Subject
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Seascapes, Seasides
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Cape Ann, Massachusetts: Gloucester, Rockport, North Shore
  • Long Island, New York
  • Rockport, Massachusetts
  • Virginia Before 1900
Art Association
  • Boston Art Club
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
  • Marine Before 1900
  • Marine Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Boston Art Club-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago

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