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Charles Downing Lay, Portrait of the Artist's Son
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About this work
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.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineCharles Downing Lay, Portrait of the Artist's Son. ca. 1881-1883. Oliver Ingraham Lay, born New York City 1845-died 1890. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Given in memory of Charles Downing Lay and Laura Gill Lay by their children. CC0.
