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
Featured Pieces
Morning Light, John Henry Dolph, Oil on Panel, Chickens in Landscape, Fowl
By John Dolph
Located in Wiscasset, ME
John Henry Dolph, best known as painter of domestic animals, especially cats, was born in 1835 in Fort Ann, New York. In 1841 Dolph's family moved to Ohio and in 1849 Dolph began an ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Morning by the Pond, John Henry Dolph, Realism, Oil on Panel, Ducks, Birds, Fowl
By John Dolph
Located in Wiscasset, ME
John Henry Dolph, best known as painter of domestic animals, especially cats, was born in 1835 in Fort Ann, New York. In 1841 Dolph's family moved to Ohio and in 1849 Dolph began an ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tea Shoppe by the Sea, 1995, Mid-Century, RP alias for artist Joanna Carrington
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in 1931 at Hampstead in north London, Joanna Carrington ( Reg Pepper) studied painting with Cedric Morris in Suffolk and Fernand Leger in Paris. She then went to the Central School in London where she studied under Mervyn Peake and Keith Vaughan. While at the Central, Carrington won a Queen's Scholarship and was included in a group exhibition, Six Young Contemporaries, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in central London. Carrington was the niece of the celebrated Bloomsbury painter Dora Carrington...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lady with a Fan, Figural, Impressionist Oil, Interior, French
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Monaco in 1897, Pierre-Ernest Kohl's grandfather was the founder of the Monte Carlo Casino and his father managed hotels. Kohl's family finally settled in Lausanne in 1909 wh...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflecting Pool, Versailles, Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe, The Danish Girl, France
By Einar Wegener
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Einar Wegener was born in Vejle, Denmark in 1882. Wegener studied art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and in 1907 won Denmark's Neuhausens prize. He exhibited at Kunstnernes...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Pont Neuf, Paris, French Impressionist, late 19th/early 20th century, Cityscape
Located in Wiscasset, ME
This light-filled painting of the Pont Neuf and the Seine in Paris, France, was painted in the impressionist style sometime in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sacré Coeur, Montmartre, Paris, France, Winter Cityscape
By Louis Peyrat
Located in Wiscasset, ME
In "Sacré Coeur, Montmartre" two figures make their way through a wintery cityscape walking up a small backstreet to a famous landmark in Paris, France. Louis Peyrat was born in Sain...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crossing a Stream in the Highlands, Great Britain, Children, Figural, Landscape
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"Crossing a Stream in the Highlands" featuring children and their dog wading through a mountain stream was painted by the British artist, Edward Holmes, in 1880. Holmes was born in 1841, the brother of renowned Victorian genre painter, George Augustus Holmes...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude with Cat, Oil on Board, Figural, Interior
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"Nude with Cat" by R. Walker is a charming portrait of a woman and cat posed by a window.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Summer Garden, Harpswell, Maine, Flowers, Coastal, Landscape, Impressionist, Oil
By Keith Oehmig
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, Oehmig now resides in Brunswick, Maine. He holds a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, as well as an M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Long Cove, Harpswell, Maine, Landscape, Coastal, Boats, Impressionist, Oil
By Keith Oehmig
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Originally from Chattanooga, Tennessee, Oehmig now resides in Brunswick, Maine. He holds a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Principia College, Elsah, Illinois, as well as an M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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