Hôtel Baudy Giverny
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Portrait of Sears Gallagher
Photograph from the 1940s: the artist in old age, spectacles on his nose, bent over his drawing board. Boston Public Library.

Painter · American

Attested lodger

Sears Gallagher

He wrote from the hotel on 4 August 1903: the dining-room walls were lined with the panels the painters had left.

  • Dates1869 — 1955
  • NationalityAmerican
  • DisciplinePainter
  • Place of birthPlace to be established

Biography

Sears Gallagher was born in 1869 and died in 1955. His birth and death places are not established by the sources consulted.

Giverny

On 4 August 1903 he wrote to his brother Percy on Hôtel Baudy letterhead. He describes Giverny as “a great resort for landscape painters, especially of the Impressionist school”.

Relation with the Hôtel Baudy

His letter says of the house what no photograph shows as well: “all the artists have left sketches in the hotel so the walls are lined with panels”. It is a direct account of the dining room, sixteen years after the opening. Where the letter is kept remains to be established.

Principal works

West Boston Bridge etching with drypoint, c. 1911–1955, 14.5 × 22.1 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. 2001.727.105. Gift of Robert Westerlund and Louis J. Guerrera, 2001. The museum releases no image of it.
Canal in Venice etching with drypoint, c. 1911–1955, 22.2 × 14.7 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. 2001.727.123. Gift of Robert Westerlund and Louis J. Guerrera, 2001. The museum releases no image of it.
Trout Brook etching with drypoint, c. 1911–1955, 21.7 × 17.3 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. 2001.727.184. Gift of Robert Westerlund and Louis J. Guerrera, 2001. The museum releases no image of it.

Key points

  • 1869Born — Place to be established
  • Giverny1903, stay attested by a letter
  • 1955Died

Sources

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