Jay Hall Connaway (American, 1893-1970) landscape painting of a Windswept Mountain.Oil on canvasboard.Circa 1950s.Size: 16" x 20".This painting was acquired from the artist's estate and is reported to have been painted in the area around Arlington, Vermont.it bears both a painted signature and an impressed signature in the lower right, together with a label from the artist's estate affixed to the reverse of the painting.Condition: some water damage in the upper left (no paint loss, but exhibiting minor buckling to the painted surface in areas) and being sold in as-found, unrestored condition.Connaway studied at the Art Students League in New York City under William Merritt Chase and in Paris at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.He resided on Monhegan Island in Maine from 1931-1947 where he ran an art school.Later, he acquired a residence in Dorset, and then in Pawlet, Vermont, where he spent his summers until 1966.

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