The GettyResearch Institute
Research Home Tools Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
New Search Previous Page Help
Click the icon to view the hierarchy.
 
Semantic View (JSON, JSONLD, RDF, N3/Turtle, N-Triples)

ID: 500037118
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500037118
 
Record Type: Person
Lee-Smith, Hughie (American painter, muralist, and lithographer, 1915-1999)

Note: Mr. Lee-Smith won honors for painting in 1953 from the Detroit Institute of Arts. From 1958 to 1973 he taught at the Art Students League in Manhattan. In 1994 he was commissioned to paint the official City Hall portrait of Mayor David N. Dinkins.

Names:
Lee-Smith, Hughie (preferred,V,index)
Hughie Lee-Smith (V,display)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American

Roles:
artist (preferred)
teacher
painter
muralist
printmaker
lithographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Eustis (Lake county, Florida, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Albuquerque (Bernalillo county, New Mexico, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Cleveland (Cuyahoga county, Ohio, United States) (inhabited place)
relocation:   New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Lee-Smith, Hughie (I)

Biographies:
(American painter, muralist, and lithographer, 1915-1999) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American painter b.1915) ..... [GRLPA]
(African American painter; born in 1915 in Florida, died 2/23/1999 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) ..... [VP]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Hughie Lee-Smith ........ [VP]
...................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Lee-Smith, Hughie ........ [BHA Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, VP Preferred]
.....................................  Cotter, Hughie Lee-Smith, New York Times (1999) A20

Subject: ........ [BHA, GRLPA, VP]
....................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006) accessed 5 September 2006
....................  Cederholm, Afro-American artists (1973)
....................  Cotter, Hughie Lee-Smith, New York Times (1999) A20
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Robinson and Steinberg, Transformations in Cleveland art (1996) 233
....................  Who's Who in American Art (1936-) 1976
....................  Who's Who in American Art, 20th ed. (1993-1994)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
New Search

Back to Top

Printer Friendly Version
The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust

© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / Contact Us