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| Doris Emrick Lee was born and grew up in Illinois. She graduated from Rockford College, Illinois in 1927, then studied at the Kansas Art Institute with Ernest Lawson, and later in Paris with Andre L'hote. In 1930 she enrolled in Arnold Blanch's class at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco and married Blanch in 1939. Blanch encouraged her to transcend the forced Cubist explorations she had learned in Paris and to develop her more personal narrative depictions of childhood memories. |
With Thomas Hart Benton Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, whose belief in American agrarian values she shared, she is classified as an artist of the American Scene. Unlike her colleagues, however, Lee's works are not deliberately politicized or nationalistic. Her rich portrayal of the panorama of rural life is conveyed through a vision of unselfconscious folk art like innocence. |
| Afternoon Train 1944, Lithograph. Edition 250. Signed in pencil. Image size 9 1/4 x 11 15/16 inches (235 x 303 mm); sheet size 12 x 16 inches (305 x 406 mm). A fine, rich impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 3/16 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. SOLD |  |
| Ida, c. 1945, Lithograph. Edition not stated. Signed in pencil. Image size 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches (95 x 133 mm); sheet size 5 11/16 x 7 9/16 inches (145 x 192 mm). A fine, rich impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (7/8 to 1 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. SOLD |  |
| Helicopter, 1948, Lithograph. Edition not stated. Signed in pencil. Image size 8 7/8 x 12 inches (225 x 305 mm); sheet size 11 5/8 x 14 9/16 inches (295 x 370 mm). A fine, rich impression, on off-white wove paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 1 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Illustrated in Graphic Excursions: American Prints in Black and Whte, 1900-1950, by David R. Godine, 1991. SOLD |  |
| Fruit Still Life, c.1950, Lithograph. Edition 250. Signed in pencil. Image size 9 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches (241 x 352 mm); sheet size 12 15/16 x 17 13/16 inches (329 x 452 mm). A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 1/4 to 2 1/8 inches), in excellent condition. $350. |  |
| The Dove, 1951, Lithograph. Edition 250. Signed in pencil. Image size 11 3/8 x 9 1/2 inches (289 x 241 mm); sheet size 15 5/16 x 12 inches (405 x 305 mm). A fine impression, on cream wove paper, with full margins (1 to 2 1/2 inches), in excellent condition. Illustrated in American Prints in the Library of Congress: A Catalogue of the Collection, Johns Hopkins Press, 1970. Collection: LC purchase, Pennell Fund. SOLD |  |