Observed arrival · 2026-11-04
The painter who came upstairs with wet canvases
A family-kept archive of painter and sketcher Thomas J. LoPresti, with scans of his oils, sketchbooks, doodles, papers, and photographs.
- For
- Visitors exploring a family-held painter’s archive
- Worth noticing
- The papers include a Pratt tuition ticket, gallery letters, prize ribbons, and LoPresti’s 1965 typed biography.
Field notes
The archive groups the work into oils, doodles, sketchbooks, papers, and photographs, with sketchbooks browsable by year from 1961 through 1973. It identifies forty-two oils and four hundred drawings, including ducks, boats, faces, landscapes, portraits, and a Siamese cat. The papers section lists show notices, prize ribbons, a Pratt tuition ticket, gallery letters, and a 1965 autobiographical account; the site says the images are scans of originals held by the family.
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