VINTAGE AFRICAN AMERICAN CHICAGO ARTIST CLIFFORD LEE MID CENTURY MODERN PAINTING

Description

A spectacular oil on canvas painting by acclaimed deceased African American artist Clifford Lee (1926 - 1985) measuring approximately 17 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches in its original larger frame. Brilliant collors with canvas in excellent condition. Details and Biography below. Thanks for looking at this fantastic African American vintage painting.
Oil on Canvas
17 7/8 x 7 1/4 inches
22 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches framed
Signed C. Lee lower right
From a Chicago suburb
CLIFFORD VALENTINO LEE
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
October 9, 1985
Services for Clifford Valentino Lee, an artist who exhibited widely in the Chicago area, will be at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel at 2100 E. 75th St. Mr. Lee, 59, died Sunday in his home. Mr. Lee applied his art commercially, designing plastic shower curtains, glass bottles and chinaware, before his paintings received acclaim. He sold more than 9,000 paintings done in his impressionistic ''palette-knife'' technique, which he acquired during study at Kendall Academy, the Grand Rapids Art Gallery and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also was an illustrator for Ebony magazine. Mr. Lee is survived by a son, Tony; three daughters, Ingrid, Kindra and Ericka; two brothers; and two sisters.