Artist Edward B. Gay (1837 - 1928)

Otsego Lake looking South from Two Mile Point

Dateca.1882

DimensionsSight: 16 1/4 × 26 1/2 in. (41.3 × 67.3 cm)

Object numberN0380.1955

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextAs a resident of Albany, New York, Edward B. Gay often traveled through upstate New York and painted several landscapes of the Cooperstown area. The Cooperstown newspaper, The Freeman's Journal reported that Gay was in the village in 1882 to paint the source of the Susquehanna River. It is likely that these two paintings were completed at that time. In the view of Otsego Lake Looking South, the recently completed Otsego County Courthouse, designed by Archimedes Russell in 1879, is evident. Gay was a professional landscape painter who began working in the detailed Hudson River School tradition and gradually followed the development of the School toward loosely painted subjective impressions in the manner of George Inness (1825-1894). Though he did not receive the recognition that many of his contemporaries did, Gay was an extremely competent painter who created remarkable images of the New York countryside.
Exhibition History“American Treasures from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL, February 2 – April 11, 2004.

“The Hudson River School: American Treasures from Fenimore Art Museum,” Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, October 14, 2005 – March 6, 2006.

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