The Hay Wain The Hay Wain The Hay Wain is a painting by John Constable, finished in 1821, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour between the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. It hangs in the National Gallery in London and is regarded as "Constable's most famous image" and one of the greatest and most popular English paintings. Painted in oils on canvas, the work depicts as its central feature three horses pulling what in fact appears to be a wood wain or large farm cart across the river. Willy Lott's Cottage, also the subject of an eponymous painting by
David Wain along with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black, writing and starring in the Stella shorts and the later "Stella" TV series. Wain was born to a Jewish family in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the son of Nina (née Saul) and Norman Wain. As a young man, Wain went to a summer camp in Canaan, Maine, on which "Wet Hot American Summer" was loosely based. In 1988 while attending NYU film school, Wain became a founding member of the sketch comedy group "The New Group." This group would later come to be known as The State, and in 1993 he and his