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August Gay

August Gay (1890 - 1948) was active/lived in California.  August Gay is known for Modernist landscape, waterfront, mural.

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Known as "Gus" Gay, he was part of the Society of Six, a group in the Bay Area of California in the 1920s led by Selden Gile that espoused a new style of painting focused on bright colors and impressionist techniques.  It was a rebellion against the prevalent sombre tonalism and decorative aesthetics of William Keith and Arthur Mathews.

Much of his painting was Cubist inspired and geometric, and he did not receive much national recognition until the 1950s.  In addition to painting landscapes and coastal scenes, many of them on cigar box tops, he was also a muralist, etcher, and furniture builder.

Gay was born in Rabou, near Gap, France between Marseilles and Turin and from this background, brought a strong appreciation of French Impressionism to the Society of Six although he was not a part of the Paris art scene.  He is credited with having an innate sense of color and a basic happiness that transferred to his bright, cheerful paintings.
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.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for August Gay available:    Selden Connor Gile,  E Charlton Fortune,  William Clapp,  Louis Siegriest,  Mary DeNeale Morgan,  Maurice George Logan,  John Marshall Gamble,  Armin Carl Hansen,  Bernard James Von Eichman,  Joseph Raphael,  Percy (Henry Percy) Gray,  William Franklin Jackson,  S C Yuan,  Charles Rollo Peters,  Gottardo Fidele Ponziano Piazzoni,  Xavier Martinez,  Anna Althea Hills,  Thomas McGlynn,  Francis John McComas,  Clarence Keiser Hinkle,  William (Wilhelm) Frederick Ritschel,  Giuseppe Cadenasso,  Arthur Hill Gilbert,  Thomas Hunt



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Woman in the garden , c.1923

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Fishing Boat Aground , c.1930

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Lot 59
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Still Water Cove, Monterey , 1929

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Lot 250
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Water, Sand and Patterns, circa 1920 , c.1920

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Garden Scene (Gile's Red Chair); Traveling Train Cars (double-sided)

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Lot 140
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Old China Town in Pacific Grove

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Lot 697
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