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Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee (Hardcover)
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Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee (Hardcover)
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Simple Pleasures presents the first major critical assessment of
works by the artist Doris Lee (1904-1983). Lee was one of the most
recognized artists in America during the 1930s and 40s, and was a
leading figure in the Woodstock Artist's Colony. Her oeuvre reveals
a remarkable ability to merge the reduction of abstraction with the
appeal of the everyday. In so doing, she offers one of the very
rare examples of a coherent visual identity that successfully
bridged the various artistic "camps" that formed with the shift in
the art world in the post-World War II era.Doris Lee exploded onto
the national scene in 1935 when her painting Thanksgiving was
awarded the Art Institute of Chicago's Logan Prize and instigated
the Sanity in Art movement in protest. Two years later, her
painting Catastrophe was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Simple Pleasures explores this initial national recognition in
the 1930s within the context of American Scene painting, and traces
the artist's thematic interest in the simple objects and scenes of
the everyday through her career. It also examines the influence of
the rise in abstraction during the late 1940s and 1950s, and the
particular way in which this abstraction found resonance with Lee's
long-held interest in, and collections of, folk and non-western
art. During this post-war period, Lee, like many of her American
Scene colleagues, found lucrative work in the heyday of commercial
advertising. Lee's commercial commissions for patrons such as
American Tobacco Company, Life magazine, Abbott Laboratories, and
Associated American Artists are especially compelling in both their
populist accessibility and in their deceptively sophisticated
abstraction. Sixty-five works by the artist span the 1930s through
the 1960s and are comprised of paintings, drawings, prints, and
commissioned commercial designs in fabric and pottery. Included are
advertisements by companies that commissioned images from Lee, and
photographs that contextualize the artist's work within the
Woodstock artist's community.
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