biografía de Hughie LEE-SMITH (1915-1999)

Lugar de nacimiento: Eustis, FL

Direcciones: Ferndale, MI; NYC

Profesión: Painter, lecturer, lithographer

Estudios: John Huntington Polytechnic Inst.; Art Sch., Detroit Soc. Arts & Crafts (Scholastic Magazine scholarship); Cleveland IA (certificate, 1938); Wayne State Univ. (B.S., art educ.), 1953; Henry G. Keller; Carl Gaertner.

Exposiciones: Oklahoma AC, 1939; Denver Art Mus., 1939; Grand Rapids Art Gal., 1940; Atlanta Univ., 1942-43 (prize), 1944-45; Dayton AI, 1939-40; Cleveland Mus. Art Regional, Ohio, 1935-38 (prize), 1939 (prize), 1940 (prize); Snowden Gal., Chicago, 1945 (solo); South Side Community AC, 1945; Detroit Inst. Arts Regional, 1948-51 (prize), 1952 (prizes), 1953 (prize), 1954, 1955 (prizes), 1956-57; Michigan State Fairs, 1952 (prize), 1953 (prize), 1954 (prize); Detroit Artists Market, 1952, 1958, 1961, 1966; Garelick Gal., 1953 & Anna Werbe Gals., 1954, both Detroit; Forsythe Gal., Ann Arbor, 1954, 1966; Howard Univ., 1955, 1958; USIA traveling exh., USSR, 1950; Michigan Acad. Science, Arts & Letters, 1956 (purchase prize); Petite Gal., NYC, 1958 (solo), 1960, 1962; City Center Gal., NYC, 1959; Am. Soc. African Culture, 1960 (purchase prize); NAD, 1957-59 (Clarke Prize), 1960-63 (purchase prize), 1964-72; Univ. Chicago, 1969; BMFA,1970; La Jolla Mus. Art, 1970; James A. Porter Gal., 1970; J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit, 1971; Arwin Gals., Detroit, 1971; MoMA; WMAA, 1971; Nat. Center Afro-Am. Artists, Boston, 1973; Studio Mus., Harlem, 1973; SFMA; BM; RISD; Grand Central Art Gal., NYC, 1969-70s; June Kelley Gal., NYC, 1994 (solo). Awards: Emily Lowe Award, 1957; Allied Artists Am. Prize, 1958.

Asociaciones: ANA, 1963; NA, 1967 (second African-Am. to be elected, after Henry O. Tanner); AEA; Michigan Acad. of Sciences, Arts & Letters; All. Artists Am.; The Players, NYC

Obra: South Side Community AC, Chicago; Atlanta Univ.; Art Sch. Detroit Soc. Arts & Crafts; Squibb & Sons; Am. Natural Gas Services Co.; Mahogany Corp.; Johnson Pub. Co.; WPA mural, "History of the Negro in the U.S. Navy," U.S. Navy Great Lakes Training Center; Detroit Inst. Arts; Parrish Mus, Southampton, NY; Lagos Mus., Nigeria; USN AC, Wash., DC; Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Comentarios: Preferred media: oils, watercolors, pencil, charcoal. Teaching: Grosse Pointe (MI) War Mem., 1956-66; Claflin Univ., 1939-40; Princeton Country Day School, NJ, 1963-65; Vermont Acad., summer 1968; Howard Univ., 1969-71; ASL, 1958-73; Cederholm, Afro-American Artists.