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Title:Broad Acres
Artist:Edward Gay (–)
Date
Culture:American
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions 3/4 x 71 1/4 in. ( x cm)
Credit Line:Gift of Several Gentlemen,
Object Number
Signature: [at lower right]: EDWARD GAY. 87
subscribers to the Third Prize Fund Exhibition: William T. Walters, Henry Gurdon Marquand, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Morris K. Jesup, Thomas B. Clarke, H. C. Fahnestock, William K. Vanderbilt, W. M. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Henry M. Flagler, Joseph J. Small, E. Dwight Church, Benjamin Altman, James J. Raymond, A. W. Kingman, George I. Seney, Jerome B. Wheeler, James F. Sutton, W. H. Fuller, Edward C. Moore, Thomas E. Kirby, and L. Christ Delmonico, New York ()
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Edward Gay and Gay family papers,
Collection Information
Size: Linear feet
Summary: The papers of Edward Gay and the Gay family measure linear feet and date from to Found within the papers are biographical materials on Edward and Duncan Gay; personal correspondence from Edward Gay, his wife Martha Feary Gay, and other family members; artwork by Edward and Duncan Gay; writings; printed materials; and photographs of Edward and Duncan Gay, their family, and their work.
Biographical/Historical Note
Landscape painter Edward Gay () lived and worked in Mount Vernon and Cragsmoor, New York and was known for his works depicting the local countryside of upstate New York and the Hudson River Valley. Verb More
Provenance
The papers were donated in separate accessions launch in by Edward Gay's daughter, Dorothy Gay Gordon. Additional materials on Edward Gay were donated by Gay's grandson, Richard G. Coker, in From to , materials on Edward and Duncan Gay and the Gay family were donated by Susanne G. Linville, Duncan Gay's daughter.
Language Note
The collection is in English.
Edward B Gay
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, search and communicate ideas and express themselves. To transport abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Prefer every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly glimpse and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict innate scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as vintage as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major th
Edward Gay
Edward Gay was an Irish-American artist who specialized in landscape paintings. He was active in Mt. Vernon, New York and Cragsmoor, New York.
The Excellent Famine of Ireland forced his family to transfer to America, when he was 11 years antique. Gay trained in Albany on the advice of James Hart, his brother William Hart, and George Henry Boughton, artists who recognized Gay's talent while he was still a child.
In , Gay went to Karlsruhe in Germany to continue his studies under the artists Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Karl Friedrich Lessing. In he returned to the United States and dedicated himself to landscape painting.
Gay and his wife, Martha Freary, moved to Mt. Vernon, New York. The couple had a son, Duncan–also an artist–and a daughter, Ingovar.
Gay was a member of the New York Artists Fund Society, National Academy of Design, and the Lotos Club. He exhibited in museums and galleries throughout America and he painted murals for public libraries in Mt. Vernon, New York and Bronxville, New York.
Gay died in in Mount Vernon, New York.
Edward B Gay
Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, search and communicate ideas and express themselves. To transport abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.
When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Prefer every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly glimpse and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.
Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict innate scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as vintage as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major th
Edward Gay
Edward Gay was an Irish-American artist who specialized in landscape paintings. He was active in Mt. Vernon, New York and Cragsmoor, New York.
The Excellent Famine of Ireland forced his family to transfer to America, when he was 11 years antique. Gay trained in Albany on the advice of James Hart, his brother William Hart, and George Henry Boughton, artists who recognized Gay's talent while he was still a child.
In , Gay went to Karlsruhe in Germany to continue his studies under the artists Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Karl Friedrich Lessing. In he returned to the United States and dedicated himself to landscape painting.
Gay and his wife, Martha Freary, moved to Mt. Vernon, New York. The couple had a son, Duncan–also an artist–and a daughter, Ingovar.
Gay was a member of the New York Artists Fund Society, National Academy of Design, and the Lotos Club. He exhibited in museums and galleries throughout America and he painted murals for public libraries in Mt. Vernon, New York and Bronxville, New York.
Gay died in in Mount Vernon, New York.