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Artist Profile
Henry Lee McFee
1886-1953
As a prominent member of the Woodstock artists’ colony in New York in the 1910s and 1920s, Henry Lee McFee was a significant pioneer of early twentieth-century American modernism alongside Andrew Dasburg, Konrad Cramer, and others. As twentieth-century art began to unfold, McFee became increasingly interested in taking the theoretical lessons of early modernism and applying them to realism; he was one of the foremost proponents of formalist realism in the United States from 1923 to 1936.
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Work
Works in Our Collection
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Henry Lee McFee
The Skull
Oil on canvas, c. 1914
30 x 40 inches
Promised gift of Nancy Dustin Wall Moure
PG.2004.001.014