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HUGHIE LEE-SMITH (1915 - 1999) Untitled (Two Workers with Shovels).
Pen and ink on cream sketch paper, circa 1940. 229x191 mm; 9x7 1/2 inches, folded margins. Signed in ink, lower right.
Provenance: the artist; thence by descent to the current owner.
In this early work on paper, figurative artist Hughie Lee-Smith reveals an unusual experimentation with abstraction--perhaps from the influence of fellow WPA artists working in Cleveland and Chicago at this time.
