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1856 Hingham, Massachusetts - 1937. Known for: Interior, genre, figure and still-life painting.
Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Walter Gay became a painter who specialized in interiors, particularly those of eighteenth-century French buildings. His style was traditional, and he ignored the... Read full biography
Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Walter Gay became a painter who specialized in interiors, particularly those of eighteenth-century French buildings. His style was traditional, and he ignored the influences of modernist paintings he saw while studying in Paris beginning 1876. He remained in Europe... Read full biography
Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Walter Gay became a painter who specialized in interiors, particularly those of eighteenth-century French buildings. His style was traditional, and he ignored the influences of modernist paintings he saw while studying in Paris beginning 1876. He remained in Europe the rest of his life. In his compositions, the rooms are nearly always devoid of human presence but suggest that someone has been there. Many of his interiors are museum settings, and although he was... Read full biography
Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Walter Gay became a painter who specialized in interiors, particularly those of eighteenth-century French buildings. His style was traditional, and he ignored the influences of modernist paintings he saw while studying in Paris beginning 1876. He remained in Europe the rest of his life. In his compositions, the rooms are nearly always devoid of human presence but suggest that someone has been there. Many of his interiors are museum settings, and although he was not an impressionist, his work often had atmospheric effects. When Gay died in 1937, he was described in The New York Times as the "Dean of American Painters in France," where he and his Matilda moved in 1876. His first paintings there were genre... Read full biography
Born in Hingham, Massachusetts, Walter Gay became a painter who specialized in interiors, particularly those of eighteenth-century French buildings. His style was traditional, and he ignored the influences of modernist paintings he saw while studying in Paris beginning 1876. He remained in Europe the rest of his life. In his compositions, the rooms are nearly always devoid of human presence but suggest that someone has been there. Many of his interiors are museum settings, and although he was not an impressionist, his work often had atmospheric effects. When Gay died in 1937, he was described in The New York Times as the "Dean of American Painters in France," where he and his Matilda moved in 1876. His first paintings there were genre subjects and realistic views of peasant life in Britanny, but he tired of these works, which he called "pot boilers." . In the 1... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Botanics, Plant Life
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Interior Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Self-Portrait
- •Still Life
- •Street Scenes, Street Genre
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Expatriate from USA or Canada
- •Italy Before World War I
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •Venice, Italy
Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts
- •Boston Art Club
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art Teacher
- •Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant
- •Leon Bonnat, Bonnat Atelier, Paris
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •First National Bank of Chicago Collection
- •Preston Morton Collection
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
- •Armory Show 1913, New York
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts