Jay Hall Connaway
(1893-1970)
Jay Hall Connaway was born in 1893 in Liberty, IN. He studied periodically at the Art Institute of Indianapolis and at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase. He volunteered for active duty in World War I and, after sustaining an injury, continued to help with the war effort as a cartographer and medical draughtsman. When the war was over, he stayed in Europe to study in Paris at the Acéademie Julian and at the École des Beaux-Arts. Upon returning to the United States, he lived at Monhegan Island, Maine from 1931 to 1947, and he ran a summer school there and then at Dorset, Vermont until 1966. Throughout his career, his work was featured in an unprecedented 85 one-man shows, evidence of his successful career as a sea painter. He died at his winter home in Arizona in 1970.
Seascape
Oil on board
Signed lower left
Strife Eternal
18 x 20 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
Gray Rocks and Surf
12 x 16 inches
oil on board
Signed lower left