Sandy Beach, Cohasset, 1860

Provenance

Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts, February 21, 2010, Lot 129

Private collection, Connecticut

Related Work

Rocks at Cohasset, 1869, oil on board, 11 ⅞ x 19 inches, signed and dated lower right: W.A.Gay. /1869.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Note

Winckworth Allan Gay was among the first American artists to promote the Barbizon style of pastoral landscape painting. His landscapes blended Barbizon Tonalism with the serenity and expansive vistas of the Hudson River School. Gay studied in the United States, including at West Point, before training in France and later in the Far East. He was also among the earliest Americans to study in Paris and may have been the first American painter to live and work in Japan, producing numerous landscapes during his extensive travels. He remained active throughout his long career, painting until his final years.