New York. 1909 - 1979
Non objective, ethnic genre-view painting
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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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New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
Illinois, New York, California. 1918 - 1979
Black-American figure and genre and mural painting
Georgia, New York / France. 1900 - 1980
Southern poverty images-paintings and history murals
Michigan, New York. 1935 - 2005
Geometric abstract painting, collage reliefs
New York, Kansas. 1899 - 1979
African-American genre painting, illustration, mural
New York, Florida. 1892 - 1962
African-American portrait sculpture, educator
New York, California. 1924 - 2024
Modernist landscape-imagery
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
California, Massachusetts. 1888 - 1967
Mod figure, sculptor, graphics, mural
New York, Illinois. 1916 - 2015
Modernist social life genre and nude women painting, graphics
New York, Maine / France. 1890 - 1973
African-American figure, ethnic urban genre
California. Born 1926
Assemblage, collage-racial issues, cultural artifacts
New York, Georgia. 1930 - 2006
Ethnic genre painting, abstraction, collage
District Of Columbia. 1891 - 1978
Non objective-optical imagery painting, teaching
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
Illinois, Georgia. 1913 - 1996
Female figure, jazz musicians, portrait and genre painting
Virginia, Texas. 1924 - 2001
Narrative mural painting-African-American subjects
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
Tennessee, New York / France. 1901 - 1979
Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz
New York / Europe, Netherlands. 1927 - 2015
Abstract painting, collage, jazz music motif
Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut. 1887 - 1948
Portrait painting of black Americans and still-life, teaching
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Brunswick / Canada. 1828 - 1901
Idealized landscape, marine, portrait and still life painting
New York, California, Mississippi / Jamaica. 1901 - 1989
Expresssionist monument and figure sculpture
Illinois, Louisiana. 1917 - 2010
Linocut prints, modernist still life, figure and genre painting, teaching
Massachusetts, New Jersey. 1910 - 2007
Black-American street genre, prints
District Of Columbia, Maryland. 1905 - 1970
Figure-genre, portrait and still life painting
Connecticut, New York. 1945 - 2017
Black portrait figure social commentary painting
New York. 1928 - 2000
Modernist figure-images, illustrator-comic; educator
New York, Tennessee. 1904 - 1991
Street genre, figure, portrait, mural
New York, New Jersey. 1938 - 2020
Modernist figurative imagery and portrait painting, printmaking, collage, textile art