Artists by Name

L

• LaFarge, Thomas Sergeant

  Thomas Sergeant LaFarge

  1904 – 1942

  LaFarge’s murals in the lobby of the New London post office are considered among the best WPA artwork in the state. His preliminary studies can be found in the collections of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum.

• Lambdin, Robert L.

  Robert L. Lambdin

  1886 – 1981

  A WPA artist, Lamden painted murals in Bridgeport and Westport.

• Lang, Karl

  Karl Lang

  1897 – 1952

  Lang completed work for the WPA, including the WWI Memorial at West River Park in New Haven. Other commissions included garden sculpture at the Stamford Museum and a veterans’ monument in Spring Grove Cemetery, Darien.

• Langer, Susanne Knauth

  Susanne Knauth Langer

  1895 – 1985

  With the 1942 publication of “Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art,” 1946’s “Language and Myth,” and her translations of the work of the German philosopher Ernst Cassirer, Langer became known as a leading figure in the philosophy of art. “Feeling and Form,” published in 1953 put forth a theory of the arts that brought her recognition in the field of aesthetics.

• Langner, Lawrence

  Lawrence Langner

  1890 – 1962

• Lape, Esther Everett

  Esther Everett Lape

  1881 – 1981

• Lathrop, Dorothy

  Dorothy Lathrop

  1891 – 1980

  Dorothy Lathrop was a renowned illustrator and recipient of the first Caldecott Medal in 1938, for her illustrations for Helen Dean Fish’s “Animals of the Bible, A Picture Book.” In addition to illustrating for others Lathrop wrote thirteen childrens books.

• Lathrop, Gertrude

  Gertrude Lathrop

  1896 – 1986

  Gertrude Lathrop was a well-known sculptor and medalist inspired by the natural world around her at her home in Falls Village.

• Laughlin, James

  James Laughlin

  1914 – 1997

• Lawless, Carl

  Carl Lawless

  1894 – 1964

• Lawson, Robert R.

  Robert R. Lawson

  1892 – 1957

• Lee, Margaret Weathers

  Margaret Weathers Lee

  1911 – 1989

• Leighton, Claire

  Claire Leighton

  1901 – 1989

• L'Engle, Madeleine

  Madeleine L'Engle

  1918 – 2007

  Well known children’s author and author of religious poetry and memoirs.

• Lenski, Lois L.

  Lois L. Lenski

  1893 – 1974

  Recipient of a Newbery Honor Award and Newbery Medal, Lenski was a prolific author, publishing approximately 100 children’s books throughout her 40 year career.

• Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon

  Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis

  1895 – 1979

  Collector and editor of the works of English writer and historian Horace Walpole (1717-1797).

• LeWitt, Sol

  Sol LeWitt

  1928 – 2007

  Intrigued by ideas such as Constructivism, LeWitt sought to reduce art to forms, volumes and variations, in effect to ideas whose physical manifestations were by definition impermanent. Though LeWitt’s early explorations occurred when he lived in New York, this important Conceptual artist moved to Chester in the mid-1980s and influenced the contemporary art world through his own output and patronage of young artists.

• Liberman, Alexander

  Alexander Liberman

  1912 – 1999

• Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  1906 – 2001

• Linde, Ossip

  Ossip Linde

  1871 – 1940

• Lipman, Howard Waldman and Jean

  Howard Waldman and Jean Lipman

  1905 – 1992

  Important patrons of Modern American sculpture.

• Little, Nathaniel Stanton

  Nathaniel Stanton Little

  1893 – 1971

  Illustrator and WPA artist who completed more than twenty oil paintings allocated to the Mystic Oral School among other places.

• Loeser, Katinka

  Katinka Loeser

  1913 – 1991

• Lofting, Hugh

  Hugh Lofting

  1886 – 1947

  Lofting’s series featuring Doctor Doolittle were early and beloved novels in the genre of imaginative children’s literature, and have remained in print. Starting with “The Story of Doctor Dolittle” in 1920 and “The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle” which won the Newbery Medal in 1923, he wrote and illustrated a new book every year through 1928.

• Longman (Batchelder), Evelyn

  Evelyn Longman (Batchelder)

  1874 – 1954

• Lortel, Lucille Wadler

  Lucille Wadler Lortel

  1900 – 1999

• Low, Sanford Ballad Dole

  Sanford Ballad Dole Low

  1905 – 1964

  An artist himself, Sanford Low’s most important contribution to the Connecticut art world was as the first director of the New Britain Museum of American Art from 1939 to his death in 1964. He built the collection from 24 paintings to over 1,500 works of art including many recognized masterpieces, and acquired the work of contemporary modernist artists such as George Bellows, John Sloan, and Rockwell Kent.

• Low, Virginia Hart

  Virginia Hart Low

  1902 – 1991

• Luce, Clare Boothe

  Clare Boothe Luce

  1903 – 1987

• Luchetti, Gabriel

  Gabriel Luchetti

  1918 – 1963

• Ludekens, Fred

  Fred Ludekens

  1900 – 1982

• Lynch, Kenneth

  Kenneth Lynch

  1906 – 1989

  Lynch directed repairs on the Statue of Liberty in the late 1920s and twice restored the weather vane on Boston’s Old North Church.  He was known for his metal work which included the Art Deco steel doors for the Chrysler Building, iron baptistery gates for St. Patrick’s Cathedral and a bronze lamp made for Louis Comfort Tiffany. He was a peer of the great metalworker Samuel Yellin, sculptor Paul Manship, and others. He was also an avid collector of blacksmith’s tools, hardware, military artifacts, arms and armor.  His collection was mostly sold at auction in 1985 with the proceeds going to St. Francis Xavier High School in Manhattan. Lynch made props for more than a dozen movies and among his other works are the stainless steel eagles crowning the Chrysler Building and the astronomical rings held aloft by Atlas at Rockefeller Center.