George Arthur Hays
1854-1934, American

The Old Peep Toad Mill
1854-1934, American
The Old Peep Toad Mill

Watercolor on paper adhered to mat board, 8 x 10 1/4 inches, signed on the back and inscribed "Old Peep Toad Mill / North S[cit]uate, RI / Aug. 5, 1914." The town name is hard to make out, but there is an old Peep Toad Mill in East Killingly, Connecticut, not far from the Rhode Island state line. Hays had a studio in Providence, RI, and is known for painting bucolic subjects.

Painting

Hills of Skye
1873-1965, British
Hills of Skye

Graphite and watercolor on paper (en grisaille), sight 14 x 21 1/2 inches, 1934, signed lower left, framed. Also inscribed "Cuchullin Hills." Purchased by the Royal Academy of Arts. Titled on a partial label and on a typed page affixed to the backing. According to information on that page, the work was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1934 and purchased that year at the R.A. Summer Exhibition. Also accompanying the work is a handwritten letter from Cecil A. Hunt referencing the painting and a memorandum of purchase from the Academy.

Print

Sainte Marie Madelaine
1636 - 1707, French
Sainte Marie Madelaine

Engraving after De Cany, image size 15 1/8 x 12 in, plate size 17 3/16 x 12 1/2 in

Sculpture

Blue Vessel
1965-, American
Blue Vessel

Ceramic vessel with colored slips and printed slab, 13 1/2 inches high