Quad City Times (Davenport, Iowa)
~21 Jun 1983 page 12
ALEDO, Illinois--Doris Emrick Lee, nationally known artist, of Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Aledo, died Thursday at Oak Cove Nursing Home, Clearwater. Entombment will be in Emrick Mausoleum, Aledo Cemetery.
Mrs. Lee married Russell Lee in 1927. They divorced in 1939. She later married Arnold Blanch in 1941. He preceded her in death.
Many of Mrs. Lee's artworks are displayed in major art institutes and museums throughout the United States. Among her accomplishments and awards are first prize and the Logan Gold Medal for "Thanksgiving Dinner," which is on permanent display at the Chicago Art Institute; painted mural for the U.S. Government Postal Office, Washington D.C.; second prize for "American Painters Today" in 1938; Jenny Sesnan prize; and third prize for "Siesta" at the "Painting in the U.S. in 1944" exhibition. Some of her paintings are represented in permanent collections at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Chicago Art Institute; Duncan Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington D.C.; collection of Encyclopedia Britannica; and others.
Mrs. Lee attended Terry Hall Boarding School, Lake Forest, Ill.; Rockford, Illinois College; Kansas City Art Institute; and California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. She studied and traveled extensively in Europe and was a resident of Woodstock, N.Y., from 1931 to 1975.
She is survived by a brother, Edward E. Emrick Jr, Venice, Fla. & Ashland, Ky.
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Biography
Painter and printmaker Doris Lee was born in Aledo, Illinois. She studied at Rockford College and with the American impressionist Ernest Lawson at the Kansas City Art Institute. After continuing her studies in France and Italy, she returned to the United States in 1930 and attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
Although Lee's earliest works were abstract, she soon developed a whimsical realistic style, portraying country life and family celebrations. The cheerful mood of Along the Waterway, in which the abstracted trees seem to dance above the water, is typical of much of her work.
As a Works Progress Administration artist during the 1930s, Lee painted a mural in the Main Post Office in Washington, DC. She taught at Michigan State University and Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and also worked as a book illustrator.
[This is an excerpt from the interactive companion program to the videodisc American Art from the National Gallery of Art.]
~21 Jun 1983 page 12
ALEDO, Illinois--Doris Emrick Lee, nationally known artist, of Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Aledo, died Thursday at Oak Cove Nursing Home, Clearwater. Entombment will be in Emrick Mausoleum, Aledo Cemetery.
Mrs. Lee married Russell Lee in 1927. They divorced in 1939. She later married Arnold Blanch in 1941. He preceded her in death.
Many of Mrs. Lee's artworks are displayed in major art institutes and museums throughout the United States. Among her accomplishments and awards are first prize and the Logan Gold Medal for "Thanksgiving Dinner," which is on permanent display at the Chicago Art Institute; painted mural for the U.S. Government Postal Office, Washington D.C.; second prize for "American Painters Today" in 1938; Jenny Sesnan prize; and third prize for "Siesta" at the "Painting in the U.S. in 1944" exhibition. Some of her paintings are represented in permanent collections at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Chicago Art Institute; Duncan Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington D.C.; collection of Encyclopedia Britannica; and others.
Mrs. Lee attended Terry Hall Boarding School, Lake Forest, Ill.; Rockford, Illinois College; Kansas City Art Institute; and California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. She studied and traveled extensively in Europe and was a resident of Woodstock, N.Y., from 1931 to 1975.
She is survived by a brother, Edward E. Emrick Jr, Venice, Fla. & Ashland, Ky.
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Biography
Painter and printmaker Doris Lee was born in Aledo, Illinois. She studied at Rockford College and with the American impressionist Ernest Lawson at the Kansas City Art Institute. After continuing her studies in France and Italy, she returned to the United States in 1930 and attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
Although Lee's earliest works were abstract, she soon developed a whimsical realistic style, portraying country life and family celebrations. The cheerful mood of Along the Waterway, in which the abstracted trees seem to dance above the water, is typical of much of her work.
As a Works Progress Administration artist during the 1930s, Lee painted a mural in the Main Post Office in Washington, DC. She taught at Michigan State University and Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and also worked as a book illustrator.
[This is an excerpt from the interactive companion program to the videodisc American Art from the National Gallery of Art.]
Quad City Times (Davenport, Iowa)
~21 Jun 1983 page 12
ALEDO, Illinois--Doris Emrick Lee, nationally known artist, of Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Aledo, died Thursday at Oak Cove Nursing Home, Clearwater. Entombment will be in Emrick Mausoleum, Aledo Cemetery.
Mrs. Lee married Russell Lee in 1927. They divorced in 1939. She later married Arnold Blanch in 1941. He preceded her in death.
Many of Mrs. Lee's artworks are displayed in major art institutes and museums throughout the United States. Among her accomplishments and awards are first prize and the Logan Gold Medal for "Thanksgiving Dinner," which is on permanent display at the Chicago Art Institute; painted mural for the U.S. Government Postal Office, Washington D.C.; second prize for "American Painters Today" in 1938; Jenny Sesnan prize; and third prize for "Siesta" at the "Painting in the U.S. in 1944" exhibition. Some of her paintings are represented in permanent collections at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Chicago Art Institute; Duncan Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington D.C.; collection of Encyclopedia Britannica; and others.
Mrs. Lee attended Terry Hall Boarding School, Lake Forest, Ill.; Rockford, Illinois College; Kansas City Art Institute; and California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. She studied and traveled extensively in Europe and was a resident of Woodstock, N.Y., from 1931 to 1975.
She is survived by a brother, Edward E. Emrick Jr, Venice, Fla. & Ashland, Ky.
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Biography
Painter and printmaker Doris Lee was born in Aledo, Illinois. She studied at Rockford College and with the American impressionist Ernest Lawson at the Kansas City Art Institute. After continuing her studies in France and Italy, she returned to the United States in 1930 and attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
Although Lee's earliest works were abstract, she soon developed a whimsical realistic style, portraying country life and family celebrations. The cheerful mood of Along the Waterway, in which the abstracted trees seem to dance above the water, is typical of much of her work.
As a Works Progress Administration artist during the 1930s, Lee painted a mural in the Main Post Office in Washington, DC. She taught at Michigan State University and Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and also worked as a book illustrator.
[This is an excerpt from the interactive companion program to the videodisc American Art from the National Gallery of Art.]
~21 Jun 1983 page 12
ALEDO, Illinois--Doris Emrick Lee, nationally known artist, of Clearwater, Fla., formerly of Aledo, died Thursday at Oak Cove Nursing Home, Clearwater. Entombment will be in Emrick Mausoleum, Aledo Cemetery.
Mrs. Lee married Russell Lee in 1927. They divorced in 1939. She later married Arnold Blanch in 1941. He preceded her in death.
Many of Mrs. Lee's artworks are displayed in major art institutes and museums throughout the United States. Among her accomplishments and awards are first prize and the Logan Gold Medal for "Thanksgiving Dinner," which is on permanent display at the Chicago Art Institute; painted mural for the U.S. Government Postal Office, Washington D.C.; second prize for "American Painters Today" in 1938; Jenny Sesnan prize; and third prize for "Siesta" at the "Painting in the U.S. in 1944" exhibition. Some of her paintings are represented in permanent collections at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Chicago Art Institute; Duncan Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington D.C.; collection of Encyclopedia Britannica; and others.
Mrs. Lee attended Terry Hall Boarding School, Lake Forest, Ill.; Rockford, Illinois College; Kansas City Art Institute; and California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. She studied and traveled extensively in Europe and was a resident of Woodstock, N.Y., from 1931 to 1975.
She is survived by a brother, Edward E. Emrick Jr, Venice, Fla. & Ashland, Ky.
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Biography
Painter and printmaker Doris Lee was born in Aledo, Illinois. She studied at Rockford College and with the American impressionist Ernest Lawson at the Kansas City Art Institute. After continuing her studies in France and Italy, she returned to the United States in 1930 and attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
Although Lee's earliest works were abstract, she soon developed a whimsical realistic style, portraying country life and family celebrations. The cheerful mood of Along the Waterway, in which the abstracted trees seem to dance above the water, is typical of much of her work.
As a Works Progress Administration artist during the 1930s, Lee painted a mural in the Main Post Office in Washington, DC. She taught at Michigan State University and Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and also worked as a book illustrator.
[This is an excerpt from the interactive companion program to the videodisc American Art from the National Gallery of Art.]
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