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An example of work by Esperanza Gabay
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Biography from AskART:
| The following is from Nancy Thurston of Williford, Arkansas, a senior citizen doing a research project in order to write a biography on American artist, Esperanza Gabay.
Gabay studied under Kenyon Cox and Walter Shirlaw, studied at the Art Students League of New York, worked at Cragsmoor Art Colony. She won several prizes from 1917 to 1926. She was born in NYC and died in Sheffield, MA January 7, 1963 at the age of 88.
I have two of her paintings, both signed. One is framed and dated either 1920 or 1926. The other is a portrait of a young girl, signed but no date. Both are oil on canvas.
She exhibited at the Corcoran in November, December of 1922, with a painting entitled "The Hammock". Unfortunately, the Corcoran does not keep records of artists showing in multiple exhibits.
She was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1917 through at least 1932.
She won the Emerson-McMillan first prize in landscapes in 1917, "The Ladies of Willowbrook Farm". In 1924 she won the Pettingill prize for "the best work of art".
She also exhibited with the NAD and the PAFA while living in New York. When she moved to Sheffield in the mid-1920s, she started exhibiting in Massachusetts at Stockbridge and in Lime Rock,Connecticut.
She summered in Cragsmoor and Martha's Vineyard, painting while at both places.
She was also a teacher. In the 1910 NY US census her occupation is teacher at the New York College of Music.
When she moved to Sheffield, she talk art and Spanish at the Barrington School for Girls in Great Barrington, MA.
She is referenced in a number of New York TImes art reviews, all in a favorable manner.
In addition to American art reference publications, her name also appears on page 181 of the Allgemeines Lexikon Der Bildenden Kuenstler Des XX Jahrhunderts by Hans Vollmer, 1955.
"Searching for Esperanza", Berkshire Living, Jan/Feb.2007
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