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1869 San Francisco, California - 1937 San Francisco, California. Known for: Landscape, coastal view painting.
A painter of California landscapes especially in the Bay Area, Monterey, and Lake Tahoe, Bertha Lee was born in San Francisco, on December 6, 1869. In 1907, she traveled to the Grand Canyon in... Read full biography
A painter of California landscapes especially in the Bay Area, Monterey, and Lake Tahoe, Bertha Lee was born in San Francisco, on December 6, 1869. In 1907, she traveled to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. She was the daughter of William Stringer, wealthy president of a storage company, and Ida May... Read full biography
A painter of California landscapes especially in the Bay Area, Monterey, and Lake Tahoe, Bertha Lee was born in San Francisco, on December 6, 1869. In 1907, she traveled to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. She was the daughter of William Stringer, wealthy president of a storage company, and Ida May Herzog Stringer, and as a young woman, was a socialite as well as art student. She studied in the studio of William Keith, and at the California School of Design with Arthur Mathews, and briefly in New... Read full biography
A painter of California landscapes especially in the Bay Area, Monterey, and Lake Tahoe, Bertha Lee was born in San Francisco, on December 6, 1869. In 1907, she traveled to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. She was the daughter of William Stringer, wealthy president of a storage company, and Ida May Herzog Stringer, and as a young woman, was a socialite as well as art student. She studied in the studio of William Keith, and at the California School of Design with Arthur Mathews, and briefly in New York with Joseph Mathews and Paris and Germany. At age 14 she was exhibiting locally. In 1894 she married Louis Eugene Lee, an electrician, and maintained a studio in her home at 2744 Steiner Street where she gave teas and without a need to sell her... Read full biography
A painter of California landscapes especially in the Bay Area, Monterey, and Lake Tahoe, Bertha Lee was born in San Francisco, on December 6, 1869. In 1907, she traveled to the Grand Canyon in Arizona. She was the daughter of William Stringer, wealthy president of a storage company, and Ida May Herzog Stringer, and as a young woman, was a socialite as well as art student. She studied in the studio of William Keith, and at the California School of Design with Arthur Mathews, and briefly in New York with Joseph Mathews and Paris and Germany. At age 14 she was exhibiting locally. In 1894 she married Louis Eugene Lee, an electrician, and maintained a studio in her home at 2744 Steiner Street where she gave teas and without a need to sell her work commercially, made gifts of her paintings to friends. Tragically many of her paintings were destroyed in t... Read full biography
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Keywords (37)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Adobe Structures, Pueblos
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Poppies and Lupines, Floral Landscape
- •Spanish Missions, California
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •California Before 1940
- •Catalina Island
- •Europe
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Lake Tahoe, California
- •Monterey, Carmel California
- •Northern California Before 1900
Art Association
- •California Art Club-
- •San Francisco Art Association-
Art Teacher
- •Amedee Joullin
- •Arthur Mathews
- •Raymond Yelland
- •William Keith
Art School
- •California School of Design, Mark Hopkins Institute, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Career Interrupted by California Earthquake, Fire 1906
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Alaska-Yukon Expo, Seattle Exposition 1909
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •San Francisco Art Association