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1915 Eustis, Florida - 1999 Albuquerque, New Mexico. Known for: Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching.
Hughie Lee-Smith was born in 1911 in Eustis, Florida. He moved with his mother to Cleveland, Ohio when he was ten years old. His work of the 1930s was characterized by a gently expressionistic social... Read full biography
Hughie Lee-Smith was born in 1911 in Eustis, Florida. He moved with his mother to Cleveland, Ohio when he was ten years old. His work of the 1930s was characterized by a gently expressionistic social realism reminiscent of Ben Shahn. In 1937 he won a scholarship to the Detroit Society of Arts and... Read full biography
Hughie Lee-Smith was born in 1911 in Eustis, Florida. He moved with his mother to Cleveland, Ohio when he was ten years old. His work of the 1930s was characterized by a gently expressionistic social realism reminiscent of Ben Shahn. In 1937 he won a scholarship to the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. In 1947 after studying at the Cleveland Institute of the Arts, working under the Works Progress Administration, teaching college art courses and serving as an artist for the United States Navy,... Read full biography
Hughie Lee-Smith was born in 1911 in Eustis, Florida. He moved with his mother to Cleveland, Ohio when he was ten years old. His work of the 1930s was characterized by a gently expressionistic social realism reminiscent of Ben Shahn. In 1937 he won a scholarship to the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. In 1947 after studying at the Cleveland Institute of the Arts, working under the Works Progress Administration, teaching college art courses and serving as an artist for the United States Navy, he found himself working in a Ford foundry. It was not long before he began to paint in a more energetically primitivist style. By 1950 this approach had evolved into a sophisticated kind of magic realism bordering on the surreal. He was an elder... Read full biography
Hughie Lee-Smith was born in 1911 in Eustis, Florida. He moved with his mother to Cleveland, Ohio when he was ten years old. His work of the 1930s was characterized by a gently expressionistic social realism reminiscent of Ben Shahn. In 1937 he won a scholarship to the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts. In 1947 after studying at the Cleveland Institute of the Arts, working under the Works Progress Administration, teaching college art courses and serving as an artist for the United States Navy, he found himself working in a Ford foundry. It was not long before he began to paint in a more energetically primitivist style. By 1950 this approach had evolved into a sophisticated kind of magic realism bordering on the surreal. He was an elder statesman of the American imagination, and his very fine technical accomplishments are gratifyingly matched by his obvious and abundant l... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (21)
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Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesThe Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999Steiner, Raymond J0 pagesCollecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998Taha, Halima270 pages (color)Hughie Lee Smith: An Overview 1949-1995
1995Brenson, Michael24 pagesAfrican American Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)San Antonio Museum of Art67 pages (color)A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
1993Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson542 pages (color)Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993Bowker R R1,473 pagesAt the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)140 pages (color)African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
1989McElroy, Guy C (others)125 pages (color)Art: African American
1978Lewis, Samella246 pages (color)Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society
1977Grigsby, Eugene Jr.147 pagesTwo Centuries of Black American Art
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Driskell, David C221 pages (color)Fragments of American Life An Exhibition of Paintings
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Willis, John Ralph75 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesAfro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973Cederholm, Theresa Dickason348 pagesThe Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity
1973Fine, Elsa Honig310 pages (color)Contemporary Black Artists in America (Whitney Museum of American Art)
1971
(Exhibition catalog)Doty, Robert64 pages (color)Social Studies: The Art of Black America, Part One
1970Alston, Charles Henry; Romare Bearden; Allan Rohan Crite, et all0 pages (color)Afro-American Artists New York and Boston
1970
(Exhibition catalog)National Cent/Afro-Am Artists80 pagesAmerican Negro Art
1960Dover, Cedric186 pages (color)