Object Details
- Artist
- Oliver Ingraham Lay, born New York City 1845-died 1890
- Sitter
- Charles Downing Lay
- Charles Downing Lay
- Luce Center Label
- Charles Downing Lay (1877-1956) was four or five years old when his father painted this portrait. He grew up to be landscape architect for the City of New York and cofounder of one of the first professional journals in his field. Lay won a silver medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympics for his design of Marine Park in Brooklyn. His work helped New York City’s leaders to understand how the public could best make use of park spaces that were created when far fewer people lived in the metropolitan area.
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Given in memory of Charles Downing Lay and Laura Gill Lay by their children
- ca. 1881-1883
- Object number
- 1967.7.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 16 x 12 1/4 in. (40.6 x 31.0 cm.)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor, 4A
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 3rd Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Portrait male\child
- Portrait male\bust
- Record ID
- saam_1967.7.4
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7ec2f51ff-57eb-453f-b354-97a713718bb9
