Two watercolour and gouache works of Nassau, dated 1915. Rocks and surf:11 3/8" x 13 7/8" / 28.9cm x 35.2cm.Cottages and shoreline: 11" x 14 1/8" / 27.9cm x 35.9cm. Both works signed and dated 1915 lower left. Elmer Joseph Read was born in Howard, New York in1862. He lived in Palmyra, New York but traveled to the Bahamas and Cuba and other surrounding islands, around the turn of the century. He studied at Syracuse University and with Emmanuel Fremiet in Paris. He exhibited at the NationalAcademy of Design in 1892 and 1894 and at the Art Institute in Chicago in 1913.