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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
JAY HALL CONNAWAY (1893-1970) Waves, Monhegan Island.
Oil on panel, 1933. 305x450 mm; 12x17¾ inches. Signed and dated lower right.
Provenance Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine. Loaned to Spanierman Gallery, New York, 2005 (label). Private collection, Connecticut.
Exhibited "Maine: A Legacy in Painting, 1830 to the Present," Spanierman Gallery, New York, benefitting the Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, October 11-November 9, 2005, number 62 (illustrated).
Jay Hall Connaway was primarily known as a marine painter. He received his formal art education at the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Art Students League in New York, and with William Merritt Chase. After his service in World War I, Connaway attended the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1921 and settled on Head Island in Maine, though spent time in New York and Paris establishing his career. In 1931 Connaway lived on Monhegan Island and started an art school there. He lived there until 1948 when he moved to Vermont.
