Reilly - Paul
Reilly, Paul H. (?-1944)
Paul Reilly was a cartoonist and artist. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he received his early art education. He began his career in art in 1913, submitting sketches to the old Life magazine and other publications. During his later life he focused primarily on portraits and landscapes. Under the WPA Federal Arts Project, Reilly created 182 easel works, none of which were allocated. They were most likely used for educational books and brochures. Reilly’s wife Helen was an author of detective mysteries. Reilly’s date of birth is not known. He died on May 14, 1944.
Sources: WPA Artist’s Work Card; Obituary, New York Times, May 15, 1944.
Works of Art Listed in CT Archives’ database from Paul Reilly:
| Drawings for Grade Reader: | pen & ink |
| History of Education in Conn.: | pen & ink |
| History of Education in Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Coleytown School: | pen & ink |
| Poplar Plains Schoolhouse: | pen & ink |
| East Saugatuck Schoolhouse: | pen & ink |
| School Buildings: 2 drawings, 3 photogs.: | pen & ink |
| Old Winnipauk School: | pen & ink |
| Dr. Hall School: | pen & ink |
| 3 Photograhs of School Bldgs.: | pen & ink |
| 2 Photographs of Old Schools: | pen & ink |
| East Avenue School: | pen & ink |
| Old School Interiors: | pen & ink |
| Old Schoolhouse on East Avenue: | pen & ink |
| Children’s Retreat- Norwalk: | pen & ink |
| Selleck Military Academy: | pen & ink |
| Old Norwalk School: | pen & ink |
| Old Norwalk- Latin School: | pen & ink |
| Interior of Nathan Hale School: | pen & ink |
| Conn. Schoolroom (1820): | pen & ink |
| Conn. Schoolroom (1740): | pen & ink |
| First Law School in America: Litchfield, Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Conn. Schoolroom (1765): | pen & ink |
| Norwich Free Academy (1854): | pen & ink |
| Implement of Punishment used in Connecticut Schools: | pen & ink |
| Interior of Conn. Schoolroom (1801): | pen & ink |
| Typical Little Red Schoolhouse: | pen & ink |
| An Early Rural Schoolhouse: | pen & ink |
| Mountings, Cutting Mats for 16 Drawings- Education in Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Old Schoolhouses in Norwich: | pen & ink |
| School Interior: | pen & ink |
| Schoolroom Scene- 1754: | pen & ink |
| Old School- Mystic Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Old School- Norwalk, Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Schoolroom Interiors: | pen & ink |
| Schoolmaster and Pupil: | pen & ink |
| Photographing Schoolmaster Chair: | pen & ink |
| Photographing Old School: | pen & ink |
| 8 Sketches of Chests for the Index of American Design: | pen & ink |
| Norwalk School Building: | pen & ink |
| 7 Drawings of Chest for the Index of American Design: | pen & ink |
| 5 Drawings of Chests for the Index of American Design: | pen & ink |
| 6 Drawings of Park Scenes for Index of American Design: | pen & ink |
| 1 Drawing of Chest for the Index of American Design: | pen & ink |
| 5 Drawings of American Chests for Index of American Design: | pen & ink |
| 4 Drawings of Furniture for the Index of American Design: | pen & ink |
| Old Connecticut Landmark: | pen & ink |
| Old Jessup Mansion- Westport: | pen & ink |
| Site of Old Ferry Over the Saugatuck River: | pen & ink |
| Interior of Old Ferry Landing in Westport: | pen & ink |
| Tar Rock- Where Revolutionary Beacons were Kindled: | pen & ink |
| Indian Grist Mill- Westport: | pen & ink |
| 2 Old Schools in Connecticut: | pen & ink |
| Revolutionary Landmark Near Tar Rock: | pen & ink |
| Stage Coach Crossing Place- Saugatuck River: | pen & ink |
| Old Westport Hotel & Square: | pen & ink |
| Schoolhouse Interior- 1830: | pen & ink |
| Front of Typical Schoolhouse- 1842: | pen & ink |
| Plainfield Academy- Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Old School in Norwalk: | pen & ink |
| Children Gathering Wood for Colonial School: | pen & ink |
| Earliest Schoolmaster’s Desk in Connecticut: | pen & ink |
| Old School in Wilton: | pen & ink |
| Old School in Weston: | pen & ink |
| School Interior- 1860: | pen & ink |
| Old Academy in Plainfield, Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Old Rural School Building: | pen & ink |
| Old Schoolhouse- Mystic, Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Rural Schoolhouse-1847: | pen & ink |
| Old School in Mystic, Conn.: | pen & ink |
| Country Schoolhouse-1818: | pen & ink |
| Cutting Mats and mounting all the drawings finished: | pen & ink |
| Old Schoolhouse in Westport: | pen & ink |
| Old Schoolhouse in Norwalk: | pen & ink |
| Eleven Sketches for Indies of American Design Chests: | pen & ink |
| Platt Axe Factory Grinding Shop: | pen & ink |
| Clinton House Westport: | pen & ink |
| Birden Fitch House- Westport: | pen & ink |
| Old Fire Department Hand Pumper: | pen & ink |
| Westport’s Only Ancient Maritime Wreck: | pen & ink |
| Military School- Weston 1869: | pen & ink |
| Earliest Fire Engines- Westport: | pen & ink |
| Old Landing Pier of Onion Boats-Westport: | pen & ink |
| Typical Onion Boat: | pen & ink |
| Stage Coach Crossing- Saugatuck River: | pen & ink |
| Old Stage Coach Road- Westport: | pen & ink |
| Onion Boat: | pen & ink |
| Old Road Formerly Used by Norwalk Westport Coaches: | pen & ink |
| Road Along Saugatuck Used by Boston New York Coaches: | pen & ink |
| Onion Boats in Harbor: | pen & ink |
| Onion Boat Remsen: | pen & ink |
| One of the Oldest Saugatuck Docks: | pen & ink |
| Former Methodist Church- Westport: | pen & ink |
| Old Bridge and View of State Street- Westport: | pen & ink |
| State st. and Riverside Avenue Looking Toward Main Street: | pen & ink |
| Westport Fifty Years Ago: | pen & ink |
| Old Mill Raceway- Westport: | pen & ink |
| Cedar Point Where British Landed in 1777: | pen & ink |
| Old Greens Farms Church- Westport: | pen & ink |
| Site of Present Library: | pen & ink |
| Compo Beach 25 Years Ago: | pen & ink |
| Saugatuck River Front- 1904: | pen & ink |
| Allen House- Westport: | pen & ink |
| Old Building Formerly Westport: | pen & ink |
| Pre Revolutionary McCoy House: | pen & ink |
| Old McNally House- Myrtle Avenue Westport: | pen & ink |
| Old Colonial House- Westport: | pen & ink |
| Jessup Mansion: | pen & ink |
| Early Horse Car- 45 Years Ago Westport: | pen & ink |
| First Home of Westport Bank: | pen & ink |
| Old Academy (from pencil sketch): | pen & ink |
| Brining in the Yule Log: | pen & ink |
| Irish House: | pen & ink |
| Swedish House: | pen & ink |
| Xmas in France: | pen & ink |
| Xmas in Lombardy: | pen & ink |
| English Mummers: | pen & ink |
| The End of the Mistletoes: | pen & ink |
| Placing the Mistletoe: | pen & ink |
| Welcome King Winter: | pen & ink |
| Martin Luther’s Xmas Eve: | pen & ink |
| Snapdragon: | pen & ink |
| Les Sonneurs: | pen & ink |
| Gathering Holly: | pen & ink |
| King of the Bears: | pen & ink |
| Making the Xmas Pudding: | pen & ink |
| Wassail: | pen & ink |
| Xmas Pantomime: | pen & ink |
| Xmas at Court: | pen & ink |
| Trinity Church: | pen & ink |
| Old Colonial Meeting House: | pen & ink |
| The Old Adams Academy: | pen & ink |
| Remains of Fulling and Carding Mill- 1774: | pen & ink |
| Machamux Boulder Greens Farms: | pen & ink |
| The Star of Bethlehem: | pen & ink |
| The Stork Announces Dinner: | pen & ink |
| London Waits: | pen & ink |
| The Goose Club: | pen & ink |
| Arrival of St. Nicholas: | pen & ink |
| Carol Singers in Yorkshire: | pen & ink |
| Adoration of the Magi: | pen & ink |
| Cutting Mistletoe: | pen & ink |
| Knitting the Sirloin of Beef: | pen & ink |
| X-Mas at Manor House: | pen & ink |
| X-Mas Poultry: | pen & ink |
| Feeding Cattle Xmas Eve: | pen & ink |
| Fetching Home the Xmas Dinner: | pen & ink |
| Blind Man’s Buff: | pen & ink |
| Westport 75 Years Ago: | pen & ink |
| King’s Highway: | pen & ink |
| A View of Old Westport: | pen & ink |
| Minute Man Statue Commemorating Battle at Compo Hill: | pen & ink |
| Round Pond: | pen & ink |
| Compo Road No. 1 Start of Road Mentioned in 1672: | pen & ink |
| Compo Road No. 2 Stephen Wakeman Pond: | pen & ink |
| Ye Rocks (part of the original Compo Road): | pen & ink |
| Ye Muddy Brook: | pen & ink |
| Library Door- New Haven: | pen & ink |
| Muddy Brook: | pen & ink |
| Compo Road Near Compo Creek: | pen & ink |
| Cross Street – Westport: | pen & ink |
| East Ferry Lane: | pen & ink |
| Fireplace in Staples House: | pen & ink |
| Eastern Approach to Old Ford: | pen & ink |
| Ford & Site of Old Grist Mill: | pen & ink |
| Edgehill Road: | pen & ink |
| Site of Westport’s Oldest Grist Mill: | pen & ink |
| Present Day Shipping- Essex: | pen & ink |
| Modern Shipping, Essex: | pen & ink |
| Toss the Pancake: | pen & ink & watercolor |
| Mother, I Think I Shall Get Well: | pen & ink & watercolor |
| I Do Not Want Those Grapes: | pen & ink & watercolor |
| Do Not Ever Cross A Street Without Looking: | pen & ink & watercolor |
| Toss the Pancake: | pen & ink & watercolor |
| An Indian: | pen & ink & watercolorpen & ink & watercolor |
| Mr. Fox Gobbled it Up: | pen & ink & watercolor |
| Do Not Throw Stones: | pen & ink & watercolor |
| Do Not Ever Play with Fire: | pen & ink & watercolor |
| Circus Poster: | pen & ink & watercolor |
| The Health Highway Goes Modern: | |
| Our Problems of the Future: | |
| Educational Factors Developed: | |
| Disasters Continue- A New Century: |