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1) Doris Lee, born in Aledo, Illinois on February 1, 1905 to June 16, 1983 (aged 78), was an American painter known for her figurative painting and printmaking.
2) She graduated from Rockford College in 1927 and studied with the American Impressionist and Ashcan School painter Ernest Lawson at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1929.
3) During the 1930s, she was commissioned to create several murals by the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, DC. In 1937, she painted in the Main Post Office in DC & another in Summerville, Georgia.
4) During the 1930s & 1940s she created a number of lithographs for the Associated American Artists. During the late 40s & 50s, she undertook several commissions for Life magazine.
5) In 1935, her bustling scene of women preparing a Thanksgiving feast became the object of national headlines when it exhibited at Chicago Art Institute & won the prestigious Logan Medal of the Arts.
6) Lee was awarded the Logan Medal of the Arts at the 46th American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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