AW685: Doris Lee "Sunbather" Oil on Canvas

Mid 20th Century oil on canvas painting of a red bikini clad female sunbather by famed mid century American artist Doris Lee. Signed in pencil on stretcher bars. Original stick frame.

Dimensions: Sight 27" x 22"; Frame 31 3/4" x 27 1/4"

Comments: Doris Emrick Lee (February 1, 1905 – June 16, 1983) was an American painter known for her figurative painting and printmaking. She won the Logan Medal of the Arts  from the Chicago Art Institute in 1935. She is known as one of the most successful female artists of the Depression era in the United States. She studied with the American Impressionist and Ashcan School painter Ernest Lawson at the Kansas City Art Institute where she met artist Arnold Blanc whom she later married. She also attended the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. She later moved to Woodstock New York and and established herself as an artist in that community and settled there for the remainder of her artistic career.