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Walter Gay (January 22, – July 13, ) was an American painter noted both for his genre paintings of French peasants, paintings of opulent interior scenes and was a notable art collector. View Walter Gay’s artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist.

An expatriate who left Boston for Brittany, Gay began his career with genre scenes from eighteenth-century life, shifting in to the kind of realistic peasant picture seen in Novembre Étaples [SAAM, ]. See available Walter Gay paintings for sale at Mark Murray Gallery.

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The exhibition is composed of 69 paintings and works on paper by Walter Gay, as well as a selection of ancillary historical material from 40 public and private collections. The exhibition includes an audio tour, providing interpretative information and perspective on select pieces. American artist Walter Gay — specialized in painting views of opulent residential interiors in lateth and earlyth-century America and Europe.

John Singer Sargent, Gay's contemporary, is well known for painting the sumptuous clothing and jewels of American society in his fashionable portraits. Walter Gay, in contrast, painted society's rooms—with their silk wall coverings, ornate paneling, 18th-century French furniture, tapestries, and sculptures—arranged in the private spaces of what were often legendary residences. Impressions of Interiors presents a comprehensive exploration of Walter Gay's depictions of elaborately decorated European and American domestic interiors, painted from the mids to the early s.

These paintings serve as documents of the collecting, decorating habits, and taste of Gay and his patrons, and also as mirrors of their attitudes towards the past. As one of the few Gilded Age homes remaining in America with interiors as sumptuous as those Gay represented in his paintings, Whitehall, the magnificent home of Henry and Mary Lily Flagler - now the Flagler Museum - is uniquely suited to host the exhibition.

This exhibition is made possible by a generous grant from The Richard C. Private collection, Brooklyn. Oil on panel, 17 x 21 in. Collection of Mrs. Mark Hampton. Walter Gay American, — , La Commode , after Thomson, ; Walter Gay American, — , Blue and White , Home Visiting. Lecture Series. Host A Private Event. Sponsored by:.

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