Charles Downing Lay, Portrait of the Artist's Son
ca. 1881-1883
Medium
Painting
Classification
Painting
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Given in memory of Charles Downing Lay and Laura Gill Lay by their children
Accession Number
1967.7.4
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About this artwork
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 Cityâs 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...