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Untitled (Interior View)
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This painting shows the interior of Mrs. George R. Fearing’s apartment in a Paris hotel. Mrs. Fearing was an American who shared Walter Gay’s interest in French decorative arts. In this painting, eighteenth-century tapestries hang on either side of the double doors with Louis XV tapestry-covered chairs underneath. Gay once said, “I had a sentiment for the past; it meant much to me . . . I was searching for the spirit of empty rooms---interiors.” (Walter Gay: A Retrospective, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York, 1980)
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineUntitled (Interior View). n.d.. Walter Gay, born Hingham, MA 1856-died Breau, France 1937. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Harper Fletcher in memory of Mr. and Mrs. James Wolcott Wadsworth. CC0.
