Flye’s work is featured in the Waldemar A. Schmidt Gallery in Bachman Fine Arts Center through April 4. The exhibit is free and open to the public 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily or by appointment.

Flye, an Episcopal priest and teacher who died at 100 in 1985, taught history and languages at St. Andrew’s School near Sewanee, Tenn. He never thought of himself as a photographer, but found captivating subjects in his classrooms, on the school grounds or in nearby towns.

His photos, mostly taken in the late 1930s and early 1940s, have been featured in exhibits across the country.

In his obituary, the New York Times wrote, “as a reviewer recalled, ‘they spoke not of the economic failures and suffering of the Depression years, but of kindly, decent men, women and children who love one another and are curiously sheltered from the disasters of the era.’”

David Herwaldt, assistant professor of art, originally curated the exhibit in 1980 with Donald Dietz. Herwaldt will discuss Flye’s work at a meeting of the Wartburg College Philosophical and Literary Society Friday, March 28, at 4 p.m., in McCoy West in Saemann Student Center. The event, which is open to the public, will be followed by a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the gallery.