Day's works are in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia College of Art, Fleischer Art Memorial and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Miami-Dade College, Florida; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; National Gallery of art, Washington, D.C.

Larry Day was a professor of painting, drawing and theory at the Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania, and professor emeritus at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. His awards include the Temple University Alumni Certificate of Honor, 1980; Hazlett Award for Excellence in the Arts, Pennsylvania, 1982; Ingram-Merrill Foundation Grant, 1984-85; Citation, City of Philadelphia, 1988. He worked in oil, water color and graphite. This painting is in oil.

Day was coauthor of American Figure Drawing (catalog); Victorian Col Art, Melbourne, Australia; and others. His exhibitions included Realism Now, Vassar College; The Figure in Recent American Painting Travelling Show (coauthor catalog) Westminster Col, Pennsylvania, 1974; The Realist Revival, American Federation of Arts Travelling Show; Bicentennial Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976; Realism Today, National Academy of Design, New York. Day studied at the Tyler School of Fine Arts, Temple University, BFA and BS.