Butterfly Catchers

Details

DORIS EMRICK LEE (1905-1983)
Butterfly Catchers
signed 'Doris Lee' (lower right)
oil on canvas
32 x 42 in. (81.3 x 106.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1950.

Provenance

D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida, acquired from the above, 1998.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

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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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