Artwork
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lay, Oliver Ingraham, 1845-1890
label: Collection Creator
content: Lay, Charles Downing, 1877-1956
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content: Oliver Ingraham Lay, Charles Downing Lay, and Lay Family papers
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content: Oliver Ingraham Lay, Charles Downing Lay, and Lay Family papers / Series 2: Charles Downing Lay and Laura Gill Lay Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1883-1916
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.layoliv, Subseries 2.6
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries houses Charles Downing Lay's sketches, a sketchbook, landscape designs, and a scrapbook of artwork; a sketch by Laura Lay; and loose sketches by various family members. 

Charles Downing Lay's watercolor, pencil, and ink sketches depict head and figure studies, landscapes, interior layouts, and architectural design elements.  Also found is Lay's pencil sketch of Oliver Ingraham Lay (1883). A scrapbook includes watercolor and pencil sketches, architectural design elements, book plate designs, printed material and reproductions used for art reference.  Included are Lay's landscape designs for the residences of Anson W. Burchard (Locust Valley, Long Island), William Campbell (Watchung, New Jersey), J.P. Chamberlain (Middlebury, Connecticut), William Murray Crane (Dalton, Massachusetts), and James M. Willcox (Radnor, Pennsylvania), as well as landscape designs done with Robert Wheelwright for A. Bijur (Long Branch, New Jersey), William Murray Crane (Dalton, Massachusetts) and Frederick Bertuch (Babylon, New York).