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HUGHIE LEE-SMITH No Birds Sing.
Oil on linen. 660x815 mm; 26x32 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Ex-collection Janet Nessler Gallery, New York, with the label on the upper stretcher bar.
Lee-Smith (1915-1999) was born in Eustis, Florida and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He 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 landscape paintings with solitary figures. His paintings are in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Howard University, Washington, DC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
