Auction: Sale #2190 - 2190Location: BostonDate / Time: March 07, 2003 4:00PM
Description:
Jay Hall Connaway (American, 1893-1970)
Head Harbor Island, Maine
Signed "Jay Connaway" l.l., artist's label on the reverse.
Oil on board, 15 x 23 3/4 in. (38.1 x 60.6 cm),framed.
Condition: Minor losses/flaking, craquelure.
N.B. Connaway notes on his label that "(t)his painting is one of a series of marines (he) painted off the Maine coast at Head Harbor Island about six miles from the mainland. It was painted shortly after a storm, May 1924."
Estimate $1,800-2,200