Arthur Wilson Gay, watercolour of geese near a pond c1945
Arthur Wilson Gay (1901 to 1958) watercolour of geese near a pond, signed to bottom left, mounted, framed and behind glass. Dimensions: 52 cm x 32 cm, with frame 62 cm x 42 cm
Arthur Wilson Gay was born in Bristol and around 1919 he was educated briefly at the Slade before accepting an apprenticeship as an engraver and painter to A. S. & A. Robinson lithographic printers in Bristol. He was elected to the local artist society in 1928 and exhibited there for more than 30 years. He exhibited 17 paintings at the Royal West of England Academy from 1925 to 1949, occasionally at the Royal Academy and twice at the Baillie Gallery in London (when he was aged 15) just before it closed in around 1916.
Gay had a very fine eye for observation and was a superb watercolourist of botanical subjects and a keen ornithologist. He sketched birds frequently, rapidly from life and as soon as he had completed the figures he would add a wash in a sketchy background appropriate to each subject.
Arthur Wilson Gay (1901 to 1958) watercolour of geese near a pond, signed to bottom left, mounted, framed and behind glass. Dimensions: 52 cm x 32 cm, with frame 62 cm x 42 cm
Arthur Wilson Gay was born in Bristol and around 1919 he was educated briefly at the Slade before accepting an apprenticeship as an engraver and painter to A. S. & A. Robinson lithographic printers in Bristol. He was elected to the local artist society in 1928 and exhibited there for more than 30 years. He exhibited 17 paintings at the Royal West of England Academy from 1925 to 1949, occasionally at the Royal Academy and twice at the Baillie Gallery in London (when he was aged 15) just before it closed in around 1916.
Gay had a very fine eye for observation and was a superb watercolourist of botanical subjects and a keen ornithologist. He sketched birds frequently, rapidly from life and as soon as he had completed the figures he would add a wash in a sketchy background appropriate to each subject.
Arthur Wilson Gay (1901 to 1958) watercolour of geese near a pond, signed to bottom left, mounted, framed and behind glass. Dimensions: 52 cm x 32 cm, with frame 62 cm x 42 cm
Arthur Wilson Gay was born in Bristol and around 1919 he was educated briefly at the Slade before accepting an apprenticeship as an engraver and painter to A. S. & A. Robinson lithographic printers in Bristol. He was elected to the local artist society in 1928 and exhibited there for more than 30 years. He exhibited 17 paintings at the Royal West of England Academy from 1925 to 1949, occasionally at the Royal Academy and twice at the Baillie Gallery in London (when he was aged 15) just before it closed in around 1916.
Gay had a very fine eye for observation and was a superb watercolourist of botanical subjects and a keen ornithologist. He sketched birds frequently, rapidly from life and as soon as he had completed the figures he would add a wash in a sketchy background appropriate to each subject.