Bells on the Trees

Details

DORIS EMRICK LEE (1905-1983)
Bells on the Trees
signed 'Doris Lee' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted circa 1947.

Provenance

Cline-Owings Art Auction, Santa Fe, New Mexico, lot 172.
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York.
Private collection, Seattle, Washington.
Bonhams, San Francisco, California, 20 May 2012, lot 6098, sold by the above.
Private collection, Los Angeles, California.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Exhibited

New York, Kraushaar Galleries, Significant Others: Artist Wives of Artists, January 9-February 27, 1993.

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Lot Essay

Born in Illinois in 1905, Doris Lee attended Rockford College before studying painting in San Francisco, California, under Arnold Blanch. Lee eventually settled in Woodstock, New York, gaining widespread attention throughout the 1930s, specifically after being awarded the Logan Prize at the Art Institute of Chicago for her painting, Thanksgiving (Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois). Lee's work is additionally held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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