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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.

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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

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Aftermath. , c 1960

Hughie Lee-Smith

Lot 57
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Ball Player , 1970

Hughie Lee-Smith

Lot 60
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Sales Price:   (+36% over est.)

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Boy with a Flute

Hughie Lee-Smith

Lot 67168
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Desolation 1952

Hughie Lee-Smith

Lot 20
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Sales Price:   (+16% over est.)

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Seascape , 1954

Hughie Lee-Smith

Lot 67045
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Sales Price:   (+72% over est.)

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Quandary. , 1997

Hughie Lee-Smith

Lot 216
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Sales Price:   (+228% over est.)



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