Gilbert Gaul

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Gilbert Gaul became a painter of highly realistic western scenes showing interaction between Caucasian people and Indians.

He attended schools in Newark, New Jersey and the Claverack Military Academy, but ill health prevented him from pursuing a naval career.  In the 1870s, he began the study of art, enrolling in New York at the National Academy of Design where he studied with Lemuel Wilmarth and at the Art Students League with John George Brown.  In 1882, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Design.