Doris Lee
Doris Emrick Lee (born February 1, 1905 in Aledo (Illinois) , † June 16, 1983 in Clearwater (Florida) ) was an American painter .
Career
She graduated from Rockford College in 1927 and the Kansas City Art Institute in 1929 . In 1930 she attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco . In 1935, her painting "Thanksgiving Dinner" received the annual Logan Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago . As a contract artist with the Works Progress Administration , she created several large-scale murals during the New Deal period , including one in the Washington, DC Main Post Office in a popular realism style. In 1937, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired her painting Catastrophe 1936.
Lee taught at Michigan State University and the Fine Art Center in Colorado Springs . She also worked as a magazine and book illustrator. Doris Lee's estate is in the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington)
Web links
- National Gallery of Art - biography
- [1] , Smithsonian Archives of American Art Interview with Doris Lee, 1964, accessed Nov. 19, 2007
- Offering a Painter for History's Reconsideration Article by Roberta Smith in the New York Times
Individual evidence
- ^ Lowery Stokes Sims , Doris Emrick Lee 1904-1983 , The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art , Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rizzoli, NY 1991, p. 57.
- ↑ ibid p. 56.
- On Doris Lee and her estate ( Memento from March 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lee, Doris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lee, Doris Emrick (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aledo, Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1983 |
| Place of death | Clearwater (Florida) |