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Helen Hortense (Lee) Deffebach

Helen Hortense (Lee) Deffebach (1928 - 2005) was active/lived in Utah, Texas.  Helen Deffebach is known for Large-scale abstract painting.

More than a decade after her death, Lee Deffebach (1928 – 2005) remains one of the most highly regarded Utah painters, best known for her large color abstractions which grew out of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

A 1949 graduate of the University of Utah, she studied at the Art Students League, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Rome in 1954-55. Deffebach returned to the University of Utah and earned a master's degree in painting in 1989.

Her paintings and other works are included in private, corporate, and public collections in Utah and the United States, and have been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions.

Submitted by Allen Dodworth, Fine Art Appraiser and Art Historian

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