Sears Gallagher

Sears Gallagher was one of the most important, distinguished, and commercially successful American watercolor painters and etchers, and a member of the Boston school. He later refined his skills at the Académie Julian in Paris. In his early years he worked as an artist and illustrator reporter for local newspapers, but later he taught at Boston University. Gallagher spent much of his time in the Monhegan artists’ colony in Maine.

His oeuvre consisted mainly of landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes showing his hometown Boston and northern New England. The three works submitted hors concours are probably part of a series of etchings by Gallagher with golf motifs. Foursome as the frontispiece of Harper’s Magazine in August 1928.