{"id":18507,"date":"2023-05-19T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18507"},"modified":"2023-06-06T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:08:08","slug":"james-lechay-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/james-lechay-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"James Lechay Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">James Lechay (American, 1907-2001)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lechay was best known for his versatile works in an array of media including oils, gouache, casein, and lithography. His paintings reveal a deep relationship between artist and subject. While he rejected following a singular style, his works often consisted of vivid strokes over a flat surface. Lechay\u2019s painting of modern painter Beauford Delaney captures his stoic expression against bold colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1928, Lechay received a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Illinois University and taught painting and drawing at the University of Iowa starting in 1945 until his retirement. He exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Brooklyn Museum; and Smithsonian National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington DC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"484\" height=\"900\" data-id=\"17641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2021.7.1-484x900.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2021.7.1-484x900.webp 484w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2021.7.1-161x300.webp 161w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2021.7.1-768x1427.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2021.7.1-827x1536.webp 827w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2021.7.1-338x628.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/2021.7.1.webp 1033w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">James Lechay, <em>Beauford Delaney<\/em>, n.d., oil on canvas, 30 x 16 in., Bates College Museum of Art purchase with the Synergy Fund Diversify the Collections Program, 2021.7.1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Lechay (American, 1907-2001) Lechay was best known for his versatile works&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18507","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19280,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18507\/revisions\/19280"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}