Burlesque Dancer - Richard Lahey

Richard Francis Lahey (1893 - 1978) Richard Lahey- Burlesque Dancer- etching, plate: 4 x 5 7⁄8 in. Signed by artist , 100 proofs. Similar etching at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/burlesque-show-14212). Richard Lahey was principal emeritus of the Corcoran School of Art and an artist whose work is represented in major museums and private collections. According to his obiturary in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/08/03/richard-lahey-painter-ex-corcoran-principal/170c6761-67ac-4517-862c-eb517fb93a1e/) he was "a product of the "Ash Can School" of painting founded early in this century in New York City. But he considered himself more a teacher of art than an artist who teaches. He introduced the method of teaching by demonstration and believed the first function of a teacher was to get students excited and eager to work on their own....Mr. Lahey's work is represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Collection of Fine Arts, the Whitnery Museum of American Art and numerous other American museums, as well as in such private collections as that of the late Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. The Corcoran Gallery put on a retrospective exhibition of Mr. Lahey's work in 1963 and the University of Georgia exhibited his work in 1963. 100% of the proceeds of this sale will benefit BASAbali, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthing the culture, language, and environment of Bali, Indonesia