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Plasterers in the Next Room

1972

Richard Lahey

Associated Names

Richard Lahey

Artist, American, 1893 - 1978

There is an overturned straw hat with a red ribbon in the foreground of the image, along with a wooden frame structure at the center. To the left of the frame, there are patterned textiles. The color palette includes earthy tones, red, blue, yellow, and green. The hat is at the bottom right corner, the frame is in the center, and the textiles are on the left. In the background, there are lightly outlined window frames and abstract elements, creating depth in the upper half of the image.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color monotype on wove paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, the Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Dimensions

image: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
sheet: 27.94 × 33.02 cm (11 × 13 in.)
Accession Number

2015.19.2780

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: monotype; lower right in graphite: Richard Lahey

Wikidata ID

Q77008610

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