Arthur Lee (sculptor)
Appearance
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Sculpture_%22Pony_Express_mail_carrier%2C_1850-1858%2C%22_by_Arthur_Lee_at_the_Ariel_Rios_Federal_Building%2C_Washington%2C_D.C_LCCN2013634502.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Sculpture_%22Pony_Express_mail_carrier%2C_1850-1858%2C%22_by_Arthur_Lee_at_the_Ariel_Rios_Federal_Building%2C_Washington%2C_D.C_LCCN2013634502.tif.jpg)
Arthur Lee (May 4, 1881 – 1961) was an American sculptor, born in Trondheim, Norway. His family immigrated to the United States in 1888, settling in St. Paul, Minnesota.[2] He studied at the Art Students League in New York City before returning to Europe to study the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as well as in Rome and London.[3][4]
He was one of the more conservative artists who exhibited at the Armory Show in 1913 where he displayed eight drawings and sculptures[5] and was one of a dozen sculptors invited to compete in the Pioneer Woman statue competition in 1927.[6] He also taught; among his pupils was Eleanor Platt.[7]
Lee was a member of the National Sculpture Society and the National Academy of Design. He died in 1961.
References
[edit]- ^ "Pony Express Mail Carrier, 1860–1861". Fine Arts Collection, General Services Administration. Retrieved August 31, 2022.
- ^ Craven, Wayne, ‘’Sculpture in America’’, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, 1968 p. 563
- ^ National Sculpture Society, ‘’Contemporary American Sculpture’’, National Sculpture Society, NY 1929 p. 203
- ^ Opitz, Glenn B., Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Books, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1988 p. 529
- ^ Brown, Milton W., ‘’The Story of the Armory Show’’, The Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation, 1963 p. 260
- ^ ‘’Exhibition of Models for a Monument to the Pioneer Woman’’ at the Chicago Architectural Exhibition, East Galleries, Art Institute of Chicago, June 25 to August 1, 1927
- ^ Albert TenEyck Gardner (1965). American Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 181–. GGKEY:6UZDFFUW001.
Categories:
- 1881 births
- 1961 deaths
- 20th-century American sculptors
- 20th-century American male artists
- American male sculptors
- Artists from Trondheim
- Artists from Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Norwegian emigrants to the United States
- Art Students League of New York alumni
- American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts
- National Academy of Design members
- Sculptors from New York (state)
- Sculptors from Minnesota
- Section of Painting and Sculpture artists
- American sculptor stubs