No Image Available
for William Jacob Hays Jr.
American, 1872 - 1934
Hays, son of the painter William J. Hays, studied at the Academy school from 1887 to 1890; in Paris at the Académie Julian, under Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Gustave Courtois, and Jean-Paul Laurens in 1896; and at the Art Students League around 1900. In 1903 he married Martha Stark and after 1914 lived in Milbrook, New York.
Hays was a specialist in sporting subjects: horses, dogs, fox hounds, country fairs, and steeplechases. Typical of his work was a set of four prints, With Hounds in Duchess County (c. 1920), depicting the Milbrook Fox Hunt, which was included in his solo exhibition of oil paintings, watercolors, and prints held at the Brown-Robertson Galleries, New York, in 1921.
Hays was a specialist in sporting subjects: horses, dogs, fox hounds, country fairs, and steeplechases. Typical of his work was a set of four prints, With Hounds in Duchess County (c. 1920), depicting the Milbrook Fox Hunt, which was included in his solo exhibition of oil paintings, watercolors, and prints held at the Brown-Robertson Galleries, New York, in 1921.
