An expatriate who left Boston for Brtany, Gay began his reer wh genre scen om eighteenth-century life, shiftg 1884 to the kd of realistic peasant picture seen Novembre Étapl [SAAM, 1977.111].
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His uncle, Wckworth Allan Gay (1821–1910), a Boston landspe pater who had studied France, first terted him art.
After spendg a year on a relative’s ttle ranch Nebraska, young Gay returned to Boston 1873 to take up patg. After a brief stop London, Gay went to Paris, where Johnston joed him on his travels.
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The followg year Gay entered the stud of Léon Bonnat (1834–1922), where he worked for the next three years. Exhibg at the Paris Salon for the first time 1879, Gay ntributed regularly to the annual exhibn om then on. Begng 1895, Gay rented a untry hoe not far om Paris, and there he turned to pictg the subject that would be his specialty for the remar of his reer—terrs like those pated by the Frenchman Gaston La Touche (1854–1913) or the German Adolf von Menzel (1815–1905).
Gay always suggts a subtle manner the personaly of the former, as well as the prent, habants of the charmg old apartments which he has so lightfully leated. 4) 1907, Gay purchased the Châte du Bré, a charmg eighteenth-century rince Dammarie-l-Lys, near Fontaeble, where he lived and worked until his ath at the age of eighty-one.
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Gay. An expatriate who left Boston for Brtany, Gay began his reer wh genre scen om eighteenth-century life, shiftg 1884 to the kd of realistic peasant picture seen Novembre Étapl [SAAM, 1977. Walter Gay was born to an old New England fay and spent most of his adult life Paris, as did many Amerin artists of his generatn.
The Gays divid their time between their untry hom and their Paris apartment, all meticuloly rated and filled wh llectns of old-master drawgs and French rative arts. (Caldwell, Walter Gay: Poems d’Intérirs, 2003). Walter Gay was born Hgham, Massachetts January, 1857.
He was the nephew of the well-known Boston pater Wkworth Allen Gay, who was stmental Gay’s early artistic trag and who no doubt troduced the aspirg young pater to William Morris Hunt. Gay’s fancial secury was assured when he married heirs Matilda Travers, and the uple set out for Paris 1876, never to return to the Uned Stat.
WALTER GAY (1856–1937)La Robertssigned 'Walter Gay' (lower left)oil on nvas21 ¹/₄ x 25 ¹/₂ . (54 x 64.6 cm.)Pated 1908. * walter gay artist *
In Paris, Gay studied for three years unr Leon Bonnat, and he ncentrated upon still life patgs. The style of the Spanish paters remaed a more pervasive fluence throughout his reer than eher the Imprsnist style which was velopg Paris upon Gay’s arrival or the Parisian Mornism which gradually replaced . Durg the 1890’s, Gay began patg the opulent terrs for which he remas bt known.