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Walter Gay
1856-1937. He was an American painter born at Hingham, Massachusetts. He married heiress Matilda E. Travers, the daughter of prominent New York City investor and co-founder of Saratoga Race Course, William R. Travers. In 1876 the couple moved to Paris, France where Walter Gay became a pupil of Leon Bonnat. They lived in an apartment on the Left Bank and in 1907 purchased Chateau Le Breau on a three-hundred-acre walled park near the Forest of Fontainebleau. Walter Gay received an honorable mention in the Paris Salon of 1885; a gold medal in 1888, and similar awards at Vienna (1894), Antwerp (1895), Berlin (1896) and Munich (1897). He became an Officer of the Legion of Honor and a member of the Society of Secession, Munich.
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Painting ID:: 11801
Blue and White(before 1904)
1' 11'' x 1' 6 3/4'' (58.5 x 47.5 cm)
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Painting ID:: 38232
Living Hall
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1926
Oil on canvas
20x26in
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Painting ID:: 79175
Milneburg in the Distance
Oil on canvas, in Louisiana State Museum collection.
Date 1891(1891)
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Painting ID:: 79940
Distance
Oil on canvas, in Louisiana State Museum collection.
Date 1891(1891)
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Walter Gay
1856-1937. He was an American painter born at Hingham, Massachusetts. He married heiress Matilda E. Travers, the daughter of prominent New York City investor and co-founder of Saratoga Race Course, William R. Travers. In 1876 the couple moved to Paris, France where Walter Gay became a pupil of Leon Bonnat. They lived in an apartment on the Left Bank and in 1907 purchased Chateau Le Breau on a three-hundred-acre walled park near the Forest of Fontainebleau. Walter Gay received an honorable mention in the Paris Salon of 1885; a gold medal in 1888, and similar awards at Vienna (1894), Antwerp (1895), Berlin (1896) and Munich (1897). He became an Officer of the Legion of Honor and a member of the Society of Secession, Munich.
. Related Artists to Walter Gay: | Benno Adam | Thomas Hill | George Carter | Alonzo Cano | Aert van der Neer |
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