Richard Lahey papers
name: label: Creator
content: Lahey, Richard, b. 1893
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Washington (D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Painting, American
label: Topic
content: Prints -- Technique
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1972 by Richard Lahey.
creator: label: Creator
content: Lahey, Richard, b. 1893
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, printmaker, lecturer; Washington, D.C.; b. 1893; d. 1979
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 120 Items ((microfilmed on 2 reels))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919-1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.laherich
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 284 & 378 available for use at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals returned to Richard Lahey after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A letter; postcard; illustrated notes; photographs; exhibition announcements; drawings; watercolors; lithographs; catalogs; and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: REEL 284: Original works, including drawings, watercolors, lithographs and charcoal and wash drawing; photographs of Lahey and his work; catalogs; and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.