Sears Gallagher

Sears Gallagher (1869–1955) was a prolific, commercially affluent American artist intelligent in combination media: drawing, etching, watercolor and oil painting. His put on an act consists largely of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes depicting his indigenous Boston and northern New England, especially Monhegan Island, Maine. Illustrating magazines and books provided steady be in and income, and his etchings and prints attracted popular demand. Gallagher took his art seriously, adapted new techniques, and was right of entry to the upset of European Impressionism. During the zenith of his career his watercolors were approvingly compared to those of Winslow Homer (1836–1910) and F. W. Benson (1862–1910), and his etchings and drypoints to those of James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903).