Hughie Lee-Smith
1915–1999
Hughie Lee-Smith, 1995; Photographer Louis H. Draper, Louis H. Draper Artist Archives (VA-04), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Archives, Richmond, VA
Works Available
- Untitled (Figure in Landscape), c.1955
- watercolor on paper
- 15 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches / 38.7 x 56.5 cm
12 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches / 31.8 x 49.8 cm sight size - signed
- Untitled (Man on Shore), 1956
- watercolor on paper
- 13 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches / 34.3 x 47 cm
13 x 18 inches / 33 x 45.7 cm sight size - signed
- Construction Area, 1962
- oil on canvas
- 22 x 26 inches / 55.9 x 66 cm
- signed
- Untitled, c.1962
- oil on canvas
- 26 x 36 inches / 66 x 91.4 cm
- signed
All artworks displayed above are currently available. To inquire about additional works available by this artist, please contact the gallery.
Biography
My earliest direct contact with painting was . . . as a ten-year-old student at the Cleveland Museum. The specific painting that made an impression was Ryder’s ‘Death Riding the Race Track.’ My early attraction to that macabre composition suggests a natural propensity to a romantic perception of reality. . . In addition to this, in later years I have come to realize the unconscious influence of the Midwestern climate as a key factor in the development of my colour scheme. My predilection for cold, dark skies and sparse, flat landscapes in my painting is undoubtedly due in large measure to the long, continuously grey winters of my youth in Ohio, Michigan and Ontario.
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