Artist Signatures

Hughie Lee-Smith

Hughie Lee-Smith (1915 - 1999) was active/lived in Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico.  Hughie Lee Smith is known for Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching.

© Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

Hughie Lee-Smith was born in 1911 in Eustis, Florida. He moved with his mother to Cleveland, Ohio when he was ten years old. His work of the 1930s was characterized by a gently expressionistic social realism reminiscent of Ben Shahn. In 1937 he won a scholarship to the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts.

In 1947 after studying at the Cleveland Institute of the Arts, working under the Works Progress Administration, teaching college art courses and serving as an artist for the United States Navy, he found himself working in a Ford foundry.

It was not long before he began to paint in a more energetically primitivist style. By 1950 this approach had evolved into a sophisticated kind of magic realism bordering on the surreal. He was an elder statesman of the American imagination, and his very fine technical accomplishments are gratifyingly matched by his obvious and abundant love for the human quandary.

In 1958 he moved to New York City and taught at the Art Students   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8453 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 264 auction lots for Hughie Lee-Smith (of which 219 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 5 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 9 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Hughie Lee-Smith as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Hughie Lee-Smith in 1 of its research Essays. Hughie Lee-Smith has 23 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Hughie Lee-Smith available:    Norman Wilfred Lewis,  Charles Henry Alston,  Charles Wilbert White,  Hale Aspacio Woodruff,  Alvin Demar Loving Jr,  Aaron Douglas,  Augusta Christine Fells (Moore) Savage,  Richard Mayhew,  Elizabeth Catlett,  Sargent Johnson,  Eldzier Cortor,  Palmer Cole (Hedgeman) Hayden,  Betye Irene (Brown) Saar,  Benny Andrews,  Alma Woodsey Thomas,  Lois Mailou Jones,  Frederick Douglas Jones Jr,  John Anansa Thomas Biggers,  Bob (Robert Louis) Thompson,  Charles Sebree,  Beauford Delaney,  Samuel (Sam) Middleton,  Laura Wheeler Waring,  Edward Mitchell Bannister