Gail Gallagher's posts on Annie Cooper Boyd
Saturday, April 4, 2015
From time to time, SHHS gets a visitor at the Annie Cooper Boyd House who shares Annie's passion for creating images. During the end of the last Board of Trustees meeting, the wonderful Gail Gallagher stopped in to explore the Annie Cooper Boyd House. Gail is a painter who maintains a blog, and she produced a beautiful series of blog posts with gorgeous images of what saw at the house. Her initial post describes how some of the books sold through our website and at SHHS's Annie Cooper Boyd House got her interested in Annie Cooper Boyd as a fellow artist: "I recently read the wonderful book, Anchor to Windward, The Paintings and Diaries of Annie Cooper Boyd. The book's editor, Carolyn Oldenbusch, offers a glimpse into the life of one of Sag Harbor's early artists by combining quotes from Annie's diaries with sketches and watercolors. There are also some precious early photographs. The book is an introduction to a woman that I immediately wanted to know more about."- Gail Gallagher, Painting the Hamptons "Annie Cooper Boyd"Here's a few teasers from her initial visit, where she focused on many of Annie's decorative details:Gail has since returned to SHHS,to see the bathroom mural Annie Cooper Boyd painted in her bathroom, and she has written a well-researched post about Annie's influences as an artist. Her artist's perspective shows in both of these post.Gail's own artwork is inspired by the landscapes she encounters in the Hamptons, and she immediately recognized this same influence on Annie Cooper Boyd. Readers will quickly see the connections between Annie's images and present-day painters like Gail through Gail's insightful words. It is easy to see the connections to many of Annie's waterfront local scenes with fluffy clouds when looking at Gail and Hugh Gallagher's paintings. Check out her posts on Annie's influences as an artist to learn about who--besides William Merritt Chase--helped Annie develop her skills as an artist!http://paintingthehamptons.blogspot.com/2015/04/annie-cooper-boyd-artistic-influences.htmlGail also wrote about Annie's life in the 1880s as a young woman in New York City. Check out all of her Annie Cooper Boyd posts here:http://paintingthehamptons.blogspot.com/search/label/Annie%20Cooper%20Boyd
