Antique Seascape Oil Painting, American School, Style Of Jay Hall Connaway

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I'm placing for auction without a reserve attached a stunning original unsigned antique & vintage seascape American School oil painting on a Grumbacher (New York) canvas, which is guaranteed to have been in my own personal collection . This painting is in the style of Jay Hall Connaway. The painting is in the exact condition as the pictures reflect and has never been repaired, or touched up, please view the attached pictures, so that you can determine the paintings age, artist, condition and style. The painting is also sitting inside of the original frame. I acquired this painting a few years ago at a prominent families estate sale, while visiting the Oregon coast. The painting portrays a peaceful evening seascape, for which Jay Hall Connaway was well known for. The painting measures a full twelve inches across and a full nine inches tall. Jay Hall Connaway was born in Liberty, Indiana, November 27, 1893, the son of Cass Connaway, a lawyer and collector of Chinese art, and his wife May. Jay Connaway graduated from Emmerich Manual high school and undertook his first art training from William Forsyth, known for coastal Oregon views, at John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis in 1910 and 1911. Connaway's father bitterly opposed his son's becoming an artist. Connaway left home to tour the California and Oregon coasts, working his way across the country and then back to the East Coast as a stoker on engines for the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. In New York Connaway enrolled at the National Academy of Design school in 1912, though he did not graduate: he defaulted rather than submit the "examination" drawing, a frequent occurrence among Academy students in the earlier years of the twentieth century. From 1912-1914 he attended the Art Student's League at New York City, where he studied with George Bridgman and with William Merritt Chase . Another influence was Robert Henri (1865-1929), a New York Social Realist and leader of the Ashcan School, who Connaway had met while attending night classes at the National Academy. It was during this period that Connaway first traveled to Maine to study and paint the rocky coast and ocean swells. These early years in New York and Maine were hard, according to columnist Lowell Nussbaum writing in the Indianapolis Star newspaper after his death. In the New York area he lived a hand-to-mouth existence. There he practically lived on canned tomatoes because they were so cheap. And when he was painting the sea on an island off the coast of Maine, in the summer, he lived on berries. Food wasn't the worst of his problems. With no income, he couldn't buy canvases. When he was lucky enough to have a shirt to wear, he sometimes would stretch it and paint on it. To conceal his lack of a shirt when he was outside his room, he turned his coat collar up. In New York he briefly took a studio in the Tenth S treet Studio Building near his teacher William Merrit Chase, but the advent of World War I suddenly removed him from the New York art world—and yet gave him the opportunities which launched his career. I hope this antique & vintage oil painting has an opportunity of sitting inside of your collection and I know if your the lucky winning bidder, you'll also want to proudly display this breathtaking painting at the front of your collection. This painting will also proudly sit in any private, or public collection. With all of my auctions I place my reputation on the validity of the information located inside of my auctions. I've been an Ebay member since 2001 and I hold a perfect feedback record of 983 all positive feedbacks, you'll be able to ! I'll also package and protect the painting very well for shipping, so that we prevent any damage from occurring. The painting will also be shipped to you using priority mail, with insurance and signature confirmation attached, this way all parties are fully protected, good luck with this exciting Ebay auction. read more

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