George Howell Gay

American (1858 - 1931)

Gay studied in Chicago with Paul Brown, a well-known marine artist, and moved to New York in 1889. It was then that Gay’s subject matter turned to the landscape outside the city, and he became known for his detailed watercolors of the New England coastline, from Long Island to Gloucester and Rockport, Massachusetts.

Gay was a member of the Boston Art Club, and exhibited his works at the Boston Art Club, the National Academy of Design and the Art Institute of Chicago. His paintings are part of the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland.