Richard Lahey

American painter Richard Lahey was a prominent artist and lecturer, and former principal of the Corcoran School of Art. In 1960, the American Battle Monuments Commission commissioned Lahey and his wife, Carlotta Gonzales, to design a mural for the Hawaii Memorial in Honolulu, which they completed in 1964. Lahey mainly painted in oil and watercolors, and studied at the Art Students League in New York. During this time, he also served, for 18 months, as an artist with the US Navy Camouflage Corps in Washington, DC. Lahey taught at the Minneapolis School of Art, the Student’s Art League, Goucher College, and the Corcoran in Washington, DC.

Lahey created mainly landscapes, portraits and still lifes, in both traditional and abstract styles. Of his three submitted works, Horse Show- Maine was listed under “Paintings”, so it was probably an oil painting or watercolor, but Tennis Aboard Ship and Skating in Central Park were classified as “Prints and Drawings”.