William Guy Wall
Illustration — Cauterskill Falls on the Catskill Mountains, by William Guy Wall, 1826–27, Honolulu Museum of Art William Guy Wall (1792–1864) was an American painter of Irish birth. Wall was born in Dublin in 1792 and arrived in New York in 1812. He was already a well trained artist and soon became well known for his sensitive watercolor views of the Hudson River Valley and surroundings.
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William Guy Wall
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- 1864 · Dublin.
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Illustration — Cauterskill Falls on the Catskill Mountains, by William Guy Wall, 1826–27, Honolulu Museum of Art William Guy Wall (1792–1864) was an American painter of Irish birth. Wall was born in Dublin in 1792 and arrived in New York in 1812. He was already a well trained artist and soon became well known for his sensitive watercolor views of the Hudson River Valley and surroundings.
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Born at Dublin in 1792, died in Dublin in 1864.
Work by William Guy Wall is recorded in the collections of New York Historical, Honolulu Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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- 1.Howat, John K., "A Picturesque Site in the Catskills: The Kaaterskill Falls as Painted by William Guy Wall", Honolulu Academy of Arts Journal, vol. I, 1974, 16.
- 2.Lovejoy, David S. American Painting in Early Nineteenth-Century Gift Books. American Quarterly. 7. 4. 358. Winter 1955. 10.2307/2710429.
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