Doris Lee

Doris Lee graduated from Rockford College, Illinois in 1921 and then studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and in Paris. In 1930 she began studying with Arnold Blanch in San Francisco, whom she later married in 1939. It was his encouragement to work from real-life subjects that set the future course of her career as an American Scene painter. Lee painted several murals for post offices under the Federal Art Project in the 1930s but worked primarily in smaller scale oil paintings and prints. She was awarded the distinguished Carnegie Prize in 1944. She also co-authored a book with her husband titled "It’s Fun to Paint."