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Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Sheffield Kagy
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Sheffield Kagy

American, 1907 - 1989
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Place of BirthCleveland, Ohio
Place of DeathWashington D.C.
Artist for the Ohio Art Project, Federal Art Project, Works Progress Administration. He worked for the U.S. Treasury Department, 1937–40, and painted murals for post offices in Walterboro, South Carolina, and Luray, Virginia. Kagy organized the Washington Print Maker's Club in 1940. He was head of the art department at Chevy Chase Junior College in Maryland, 1940–43, then served in the navy as a camouflage designer for the Bureau of Ships until 1945. After the war he became a professor of fine arts at the National Art School, a post he held until 1956. He was an exhibition officer and designer for the State Department, 1959-73.