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Winckworth Allan Gay

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Winckworth Allan Gay (1821 - 1910) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Winckworth Gay is known for Landscape, marine-coastal view.

Winckworth Allan Gay was a painter of landscapes including many scenes of Europe and the Orient and also did an occasional portrait.  His landscape style combined Tonalism of the Barbizon School and serenity and vistas of the Hudson River School.  He was one of the first Americans to be influenced by the Barbizon style of painting from France, was one of the earliest Americans to study in Paris, and was one of the first, possibly the first, American painter to live and paint in Japan.

He was born in 1821 in West Hingham, Massachusetts.   He is known to have studied with Robert W. Weir in West Point, New York in 1838, and was painting in the Boston area in the early 1840s, as suggested by his first known portrait, which was Ebenezer Gay, executed in 1845.

He traveled throughout Europe for four years, beginning in 1847.  He was an inveterate traveler, painting locales as varied as the Orient, Egypt, northeastern America and F   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2647 characters.]  Artist bio

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24 Book References for Winckworth Allan Gay
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Vose Galleries, Boston (essays by Rachel Beaupre and Courtney Kopplin) Defining A Nation: Paintings of Nineteenth-Century America, Featuring the Wheeler Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 25 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2000 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn Boston Art Club: 1855-1950 88 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Halsby, Julian Venice/The Artist's Vision Guide to British and American Painters 223 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Campbell, Catherine New Hampshire Scenery 0 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Harding, Jonathan P Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure 185 No
1982 Czestochowski, Joseph S The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings 184 Yes
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1980 Troyen, Carol The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 204 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1975 Bermingham, Peter American Art in the Barbizon Mood
(Exhibition catalog)		 191 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1971 Vigtel, Gudmund/D Hoopes The Beckoning Land A Selection of Nineteenth Century Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1968 Boston University Boston Painters 1720-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 70 No
1953 Brooklyn, Museum American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection 48 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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