Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee

Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee (1869-1937)[1] was an American painter, known for her California landscapes painted within the California Impressionist style.

Monterey Bay, Pacific Grove by Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee
Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee
Born
Bertha Elizabeth Stringer

(1869-12-06)December 6, 1869
San Francisco, California, U.S.
DiedMarch 19, 1939(1939-03-19) (aged 69)
Palo Alto, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forPainting
MovementCalifornia Impressionism
Spouse(s)
Louis Eugene Lee
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(m. 1894)​

Biography

Bertha Elizabeth Lee (née Stringer) was born on December 6, 1869 in San Francisco. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and went on to study painting with Amédée Joullin, William Keith, Arthur Frank Mathews, and Raymond Yelland.[2]

She married Eugene Lee in 1894.[3] The couple lived in San Francisco and Lee primarily painted California scenes.[2]

She exhibited her work at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4] She also exhibited at the California State Fair, the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, and the Mark Hopkins Institute. In 1922 she had a one-woman show at Richelieu Gallery in San Francisco.[2]

Lee died on March 19, 1937 in Palo Alto, California.[5]

References
  1. "Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee (1873-1937)". Invaluable. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  2. "Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee". AskArt. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  3. "Bertha S. Lee". CaliforniaView Fine Arts. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  4. Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  5. Shields, Scott A. (2006-04-17). Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907. University of California Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-0-520-24739-0.
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