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Accession #	58.156
Artist	Winckworth Allan Gay
Title	Study for Welch Mountain from West Compton, New Hampshire
Date	1856
Medium	Oil on paperboard
Dimensions	8 1/8 × 12 3/16 in. (20.6 × 31 cm) frame: 12 3/4 × 16 1/2 × 2 1/8 in. (32.4 × 41.9 × 5.4 cm)
Inscriptions	Inscribed verso upper center: "Welch Mt from / West Campton, N.H. / W.A.G. 1856"
Credit Line	Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Location	Visible Storage: Case 15, Screen J (Paintings)

Curatorial Remarks: In the summer of 1856, while traveling in the White Mountains with Asher B. Durand and other artists, Gay painted this small study (below, 58.156), which became the basis for the painting (above, 52.15) made in his Boston studio two years later. The broad brushstrokes and high-keyed colors of the study became more subtle in the finished composition. Gay also moved the vantage point slightly and added anecdotal details, such as dirt roads, farm animals, and buildings.