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Hay wagon off Jerusalem Road, Cohasset, Massachusetts

Creator: Winckworth Allan Gay
Offered by: Jeffrey Tillou Antiques

Description
Winckworth Allan Gay (1821-1910) Active/Lived: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Europe, Asia
Hay wagon off Jerusalem Road, Cohasset, Massachusetts
Signed and dated (l.l.): W. A. Gay 1862
Partial labels from Paris on frame verso.
Oil on canvas
14” x 24”, 26” x 35” (frame)
Over-all in fine condition, lined with minor craquelure and small areas of inpainting revealed under ultra violet light. Housed in a period—most likely original—carved and gilt wood frame.
Provenance: William Davis, Dennis, Massachusetts; The Collection of Tom and Lenore Karras, Geneva, Illinois.
Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes and one of the first Americans to be influenced by the Barbizon style of painting from France. He was also one of the first American painters to live and paint in Japan.
Gay’s paintings can be found in the collections of the Boston Athenaeum, Brooklyn Museum, Hingham Historical Society, Massachusetts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Item ID: WoA-AMP-OC 762

Price: $6500

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Period:	19th Century
Creation Date:	1862
Styles / Movements:	Other
Incollect Reference #:	872239

Dimensions

W.	35 in;	H.	26 in;
W.	88.9 cm;	H.	66.04 cm;

Message from Seller:

Jeffrey Tillou Antiques was established in 1992. The three story historic building located “on the green” in Litchfield, features an extensive inventory of Americana from the 18th and early 19th centuries. Here you will find an extraordinary collection of furniture, folk art, weathervanes, sculpture, Oriental carpets, and related decorative pieces as well as distinctive European furniture and original works of art.