About Wiscasset Bay Gallery
Established in 1985, the Wiscasset Bay Gallery specializes in fine nineteenth through twenty-first century American and European paintings, with an emphasis on Maine and Monhegan Island artists. The Wiscasset Bay Gallery started as a small, upstairs space on Front Street in Bath, Maine in 1985. One year later, we relocated to the historic ship-building village of Wiscasset, along the Sheepscot River. By 1997, the Gallery had expanded again to our current location on Main Street, Wiscasset in the antique Wawenock building. Our spacious exhibition galleries, wide pine floo...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Woodland Stream, Barbizon School, American Impressionist, Oil on Canvas, c. 1870
By William Keith
Located in Wiscasset, ME
California landscapist William Keith was born in Scotland in 1838. He immigrated to New York with his family in 1850 and began training as a wood engraver in 1856. Keith moved to San...
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1870s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Femme nue couchée, 1906, Resting Nude, French Impressionist, Etching
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Wiscasset, ME
This etching is based off a Renoir painting also titled "Femme nue couchée" of a nude—the artist's favorite muse, Gabrielle Renard—reclining on a couch with pillows. Three versions o...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Fishing Along the Stream, New York, 1892, American, Realist, Pastoral, Landscape
Located in Wiscasset, ME
William Crothers Fitler was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. He is best known for his tonalist landscapes of New York, Long Island and Conne...
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1890s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Place Pigalle, Paris, France, Cityscape, Montmartre, Sacre-Coeur, Oil on Canvas
By Merio Ameglio, 1897-1970
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Merio Ameglio was born in 1897 in San Remo, Italy. After his formative years of painting along the French coast, Ameglio moved to Paris in 1938 where he continued to explore and perf...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Village Afternoon, French Countryside, Barbizon School, 19th Century, Oil
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Alfred Howland was born in Wadpole, New Hampshire in 1838, the son of a builder. He began his artistic training as a lithographer in Boston in 1857, moved to New York a year later an...
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Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailing Vessels at Sea, Dutch Seascape, Marine Painting, 19th Century, Signed
By Hendrik Willem Mesdag
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Marine painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag was born in Groningen in 1831. The son of a banker, he worked at his father's stock brokerage firm until 1866, when his wife Sientje's inheritanc...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Artist, American Impressionist, 1928, Oil on Canvas on Board, Painter, Woods
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Leon Foster Jones was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. He studied under Joseph Rodefer DeCamp and Ernest Lee Major at the Cowles Art School in ...
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1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Scholar, Portrait of a Seated Man, Signed, Oil on Canvas, 19th Century
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Engraver, painter and illustrator Francis Scott King was born in Auburn, Maine in 1850. He studied under J. W. Orr and August Will in New York. King was a founding member of the Soci...
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1870s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reclining Nude, Modernist Pastel, Interior, Female Figure, Signed 20th Century
By Warren Brandt
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Warren Brandt was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1918. He studied at the Pratt Institute in New York City from 1935 to 1939, then moved to California to work in animation for ...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
In the Park, Paris, France, Impressionist Oil, Horse and Carriage, Gardens
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Lajos Kunffy was born in Orci, a village in south-western Hungary near the Croatian border. He attended law school and the Mintarajziskola (National University of Fine Art) in Budape...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
By the Sea, Brittany, France, Peasant Girl, 19th Century, Coastal Scene, Oil
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Painter, sculptor and illustrator William Sergeant Kendall was born in 1869 in the Bronx, New York. In 1883, he began his studies at the Brooklyn Art Guild and the following year enr...
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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Les berges du Quai de la Tournelle, 1930, French Post-Impressionist, Paris Scene
By Gustave Madelain
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Landscape painter Gustave Madelain was born in Charly (now Charly-sur-Marne) in 1867. Though little is known of Madelain’s education, he debuted at the Salon des Indépendents in 1907...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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