Lahey, Richard, b. 1893 d. 1979

Art teacher, Etcher, Painter, Printmaker
Washington, D.C. (Show Bio)

Richard Lahey papers, 1919-1970

120 items (microfilmed on 2 reels)
Reel(s): 284 & 378

A letter; postcard; illustrated notes; photographs; exhibition announcements; drawings; watercolors; lithographs; catalogs; and clippings.

REEL 284: Original works, including drawings, watercolors, lithographs and charcoal and wash drawing; photographs of Lahey and his work; catalogs; and clippings.

REEL 378: One letter and one postcard from Robert Henri, 1927, commending a Lahey etching and describing his own studio; illustrated notes from Lahey and his wife, artist Carlotta Gonzales, to her mother; Lahey's recollections of Kenneth Hayes Miller and Edward Hopper; photographs of Lahey with Robert Laurent, cartoonists Cliff Sterret and Rudolf Dirks, with Art Students League members, and of Miller in class and at work; exhibition announcements; a design for ship camouflage, with a clipping on World War I camouflage; and six drawings.

Location of Originals: Originals returned to Richard Lahey after microfilming.

Lent for microfilming 1972 by Richard Lahey.

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