Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and... Read full biography
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School. He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by... Read full biography
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School. He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by the Barbizon style of painting from France, was one of the earliest Americans to study in Paris, and was one of the first, possibly the first, American painter to live and paint in Japan. He was born... Read full biography
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School. He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by the Barbizon style of painting from France, was one of the earliest Americans to study in Paris, and was one of the first, possibly the first, American painter to live and paint in Japan. He was born in 1821 in West Hingham, Massachusetts. He is known to have studied with Robert W. Weir in West Point, New York in 1838, and was painting in the Boston area in the early 1840s, as suggested by his first known portrait, which was Ebenezer Gay,... Read full biography
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait. His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School. He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by the Barbizon style of painting from France, was one of the earliest Americans to study in Paris, and was one of the first, possibly the first, American painter to live and paint in Japan. He was born in 1821 in West Hingham, Massachusetts. He is known to have studied with Robert W. Weir in West Point, New York in 1838, and was painting in the Boston area in the early 1840s, as suggested by his first known portrait, which was Ebenezer Gay, executed in 1845. He traveled throughout Europe for four years, beginning in 1847. He was... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (24)
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Defining A Nation: Paintings of Nineteenth-Century America, Featuring the Wheeler Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Vose Galleries, Boston (essays by Rachel Beaupre and Courtney Kopplin)
25 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Boston Art Club: 1855-1950
2000
Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn
88 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters
1990
Halsby, Julian
223 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
New Hampshire Scenery
1985
Campbell, Catherine
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure
1984
Harding, Jonathan P
185 pages
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1980
Troyen, Carol
204 pages (color)
American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979
Brooklyn Museum
133 pages (color)
American Art in the Barbizon Mood (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Bermingham, Peter
191 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes
94 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
Boston Painters 1720-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Boston University
70 pages
American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection
1953
Brooklyn, Museum
48 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index