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
"Abstraction, " Rolph Scarlett, ca 1947, abstract expressionism, gouache
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Ontario, Canada, Rolph Scarlett left home at age eighteen for New York City, making that city his home for long periods during his lifetime. While beginning his career as an ...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Meditation, Oil, Figurative, Nude, Impressionist, Early 20th Century
By Henry R. Rittenberg
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Henry R. Rittenberg, a native of Libau, Latvia, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and continued to live and work in Philadelphia and New York for the majority of his ca...
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1910s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Bateau Mouche, Paris, France, Cityscape, Park, Children
By François Gall
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born to Hungarian parents in 1912, François Gall studied at the Academy Royale des Beaux-Arts in Rome. After moving to Paris in 1936, he enrolled at the École Nationale des Beaux-Art...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Stroll, The Pantheon, Paris, France, Impressionist Oil, Ladies, Parasol
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Edouard Henry-Laurent was born in Paris in 1859. He exhibited in avant-garde galleries including Le Barc de Boutteville in 1894, 1896 and 1897, then at the Salon d'Automne in 1903 an...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vaas met Bloemen, Flower Still Life, Dutch, Impressionist
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Coba Ritsema was born in Haarlam in the Netherlands in 1876. At age 15 she attended the School voor Kunstnijverheid in Haarlem where she learned the basics of drawing. In 1893 she wa...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Morning Chickens, American, Oil, Pastoral, Rural Landscape, Farmyard
By George Washington Nicholson
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in New Jersey, George Washington Nicholson moved to Philadelphia in the 1860s to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and to pursue his career as an artist. Nicholson t...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Speeding Homeward, Seascape, Ship, Ocean, Nautical, Marine, Watercolor
By William Minshall Birchall
Located in Wiscasset, ME
William Minshall Birchall was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, but immigrated with his family to London in 1891 and received his art education there. Though details on his schooling are ...
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Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
92nd Highlander, British, Soldier, Historical Dress, Figural
By David Fertig
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1946, artist and teacher David Fertig studied at the Philadelphia College of Art and Art Institute of Chicago. Fertig has exhibited in museums a...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Venice Festival, Italy, Cityscape, Gondola, Canal
By Frederick Milton Grant
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Sibley, Iowa, in 1886, Frederic Milton Grant studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, with additional training at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Grant traveled to Italy in...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Children at Play, 1915, Ashcan School, New York, American, Park, Pastel on Paper
By Theresa Bernstein
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Philadelphia in 1890, Theresa Bernstein showed early talent and interest in art. At the age of seventeen, she won a Board of Education scholarship to attend the Philadelphia ...
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1950s Ashcan School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The "New York" 1898, Marine, Seascape, Steamer, Ship at Sea, American, Realism
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Milton James Burns was born in Mt. Gilead, Ohio, in 1853. A founding member of the Salmagundi Club in New York, Burns became a highly acclaimed marine painter, one of the few who was...
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Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Butterfly, 19th c, German, Realism, Genre Scene, Children, Landscape
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Carl Johann Lasch was born in 1822 in Leipzig, Germany. Lasch was known for his historical and genre paintings. He attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where he studied with Edu...
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19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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