Sailing off the Seashore, Cohasset, Massachusetts

Oil on wood panel
12 x 19 inches

Signed and dated lower left: W. Allan Gay 1872

1872
$14,500

Sailing off the Seashore, Cohasset, painted in 1872, resembles a composition of the same sandy cove completed three years earlier, now held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Private collection, Newton, Massachusetts
To Vose Galleries of Boston, inventory no. 31960, January 1997
Returned to private collection, Newton, Massachusetts, October 1997
Eventually to collection, Boston, Massachusetts, by 1998
To private collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1998 to present
  1. Previous Vose Galleries label, Inventory No. 31960
  2. Winsor & Newton label, London

Good. The painting was recently cleaned and has scattered retouch mostly near the frame edges, with a few small spots in the sky, one in the trees, and a few areas in the lower left foreground.

Sailing off the Seashore, Cohasset, painted in 1872, resembles a composition of the same sandy cove completed three years earlier, now held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Click here to read full artist biography

Private collection, Newton, Massachusetts
To Vose Galleries of Boston, inventory no. 31960, January 1997
Returned to private collection, Newton, Massachusetts, October 1997
Eventually to collection, Boston, Massachusetts, by 1998
To private collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 1998 to present
  1. Previous Vose Galleries label, Inventory No. 31960
  2. Winsor & Newton label, London

Good. The painting was recently cleaned and has scattered retouch mostly near the frame edges, with a few small spots in the sky, one in the trees, and a few areas in the lower left foreground.

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