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HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999) Promise.
Color lithograph, 1989. 590x432 mm; 23 1/4x17 inches, full margins. Artist's proof, aside from the edition of 25. Signed, numbered 2/18 and inscribed "A.P." in pencil, lower margin. Printed by J.K. Fine Arts, New York, with the blind stamp lower left. A very good impression.
Hughie Lee-Smith was born in Eustis, Florida and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. Lee-Smith received early artistic training at the Karamu House, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts School. From 1938 to 1939 he was employed by the Ohio Federal Arts Project. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he used funds from the G.I. Bill to earn his B.S. from Wayne State University in Detroit (1953). Lee-Smith is known for his sparse landscapes with solitary figures; his works in printmaking are late in his career. His paintings are in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Howard University, Washington, DC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
