Lawrence Flynn was born in 1900 in New Haven, Connecticut. He attended the city’s public schools and studied art at the Art Students’ League in New York and anatomy under Bridgeman. He worked in art studios in New York and New Haven. From 1936 to 1939 he completed several color plates for the WPA for the Index of American Design. Flynn died in 1971.
Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Artist Biography; Social Security Death Index; Erwin O. Christenson, The Index of American Design (New York, 1950), pp. 130, 204.
Works of Art Listed in CT Archives’ database from Lawrence Flynn:
| Chest: | watercolor |
| Hitchcock Chair: | watercolor |
| Hitchcock Chair: | watercolor |
| Hitchcock Chair: | watercolor |
| Flagon: | pen & ink |
| Details: | pen & ink |
| Tankard Lid: | pen & ink |
| Tankard: | pen & ink |
| Details: | pen & ink |
| Chalice: | pen & ink |
| Details of Tankard: | pen & ink |
| Punch Bowl: | pen & ink |
| Tankard: | pen & ink |
| Details of Punch Bowl: | pen & ink |
| Beaker: | pen & ink |
| Beaker: | pen & ink |
| Caudle Cup: | pen & ink |
| Chalice: | pen & ink |
| Teapot: | pen & ink |
| Teapot: | pen & ink |
| Tankard: | pen & ink |
| Hitchcock Chair: | watercolor |
| Hitchcock Rocker: | watercolor |
| Band Box: | watercolor |
| Hadley Chest: | watercolor |
| Transom: | watercolor |
| Franklin: | watercolor |
| Butter Mold: | watercolor |
| Butter Mold: | watercolor |
| Stenciled Chair: | watercolor |
| Detail: | watercolor |
| Barnum Figure: | watercolor |
| Rocker: | watercolor |
| Barnum Figure: | watercolor |
| Window Cornice: | watercolor |
| Hitchcock Chair: | watercolor |
| Hitchcock Chair Back: | watercolor |
| Caudle Cup: | pen & ink |
| Teapot: | pen & ink |
| Tankard: | pen & ink |
| Details: | pen & ink |
| Tankard: | pen & ink |
| Details: | pen & ink |
| Sugar Bowl Details: | pen & ink |
| Tankard: | pen & ink |
| Tornado Results at Silver Sands: | watercolor |
| After the Hurricane: | pencil |
| Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Tankark: | pen & ink |
| Details: | pen & ink |
| Bowl: | pen & ink |
| Beaker: | pen & ink |
| F.A.P. Pamphlet: | pen & ink |
| Doorway of the New Haven Public Library Line: | line |
| Watch Fob: | pen & ink |
| Snuff Box: | pen & ink |
| Two Ink Wells: | watercolor |
| Decoy: | watercolor |
| Memento Mori: | pen & ink |
| City Seal: |
Donald Forrer was born on February 2, 1908. He worked as a seaman on the Great Lakes before he went on to pursue a formal art education at the Cleveland Art School and then for a short time at the Huntington Polytechnic School. He continued his education at the Yale School of Fine Arts, graduating with a BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS degree in 1932. In 1934 Forrer married. He worked for the Public Works of Art Project before transferring to the WPA Federal Arts Project in 1935. He completed eight easel works and two murals. For the Department of Health in New Haven, he completed the mural The History of Public Health in New Haven which was exhibited at the New Haven Tercentenary Exhibition. Forrer’s other works were allocated to the State Teachers College, Internal Revenue Office, and Board of Health. After completing the Public Health mural, he left the WPA project and moved to Ossining, New York to work in the studio of Eugene Savage. His date of death is unknown.
Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; WPA Biography; WPA Federal Arts Project Newsletter, May 1938; Social Security Death Index.
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Works of Art Listed in CT Archives’ database from Donald Forrer:
| Detail Mural- Lincoln: | oil |
| Silo: | |
| Red Barn: | |
| Foggy Night: | |
| Night Haul: | |
| Still Life- Face: | |
| Gray Barn: | |
| Sun Drawing Water: | |
| Connecticut Silo: | |
| History of Public Health in New Haven: |
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