Lot 185: HENRY LEE MCFEE Landscape.

HENRY LEE MCFEE
Landscape.

Pencil on cream wove paper. 140x283 mm; 51/2x111/4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right. Ex-collection Contemporary Studios, Buffalo, and Philip Desind, Silver Spring, with the ink stamps on the frame back. Time stain.

According to the Caldwell Gallery, Henry Lee McFee received a large inheritance in 1907 allowing him to paint full-time. He attended summer classes at the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York, studying under Birge Harrison. In November of 1913, McFee exhibited six works at the MacDowell Club, and in 1920 his work was shown at the Gallerie Georges Petit's International Art Exhibition in Paris.

McFee's first one-man show was in 1927 at the Rehn Gallery, where he continued exhibiting into the 1940s. During his lifetime, his paintings were exhibited at the Carnegie Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art the Corcoran Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum.