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LEE GODIE
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Steve Kagan
Lee Godie
(Holding Rolled Canvases)
1985
Silver Gelatin
Print
Edition 1 of 25
17 1/8 x 20 7/8
inches
LGSK 2
$500.
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Portrait
(Blue-eyed Woman in Orange Top and Hat)
Paint and Pen
on Canvas
17 7/8 x 16 ¼
inches
LGBS 2
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Perfume
Bottle
Paint and pen
on canvas mounted on paper
23 x 14 5/8
inches
LGBS 3
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Women (Out
of Space) (Woman in red with red eyelashes)
Paint and
Ballpoint Pen on Canvas
18 x 18 inches
LGBS 6
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A Lithograph
Paint and pen
on canvas
18 3/8 x 18 1/8
inches
LGMT 2
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Gibbson Girl
(sic)
Paint on Canvas
17¾ x 18¼
inches
LGBS 8
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The Seagull
(Pink Seagulls)
Paint and Pen on Canvas
18 x 19¼ inches
LGBS 11
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Miss Gibbson
(sic) (Gibson Girl in Profile)
Ballpoint Pen on Canvas
18 x 15 7/8
inches
LGBS 15
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Untitled
(Lady in Hat with Long Hair)
Pen on canvas
18 ¼ x 17 ¾
inches
LGBS 25
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SA Women
(A Woman with Orange Leaves)
Paint and pen
on canvas
18 x 18 ¼
inches
LGBS 26
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Eldarado
(sic)
Paint on Canvas
26 x 21½ inches
LGBS 27
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Untitled
Paint on Canvas
26 ½ x 26¼
inches
LGBS 28
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A Bird A
Female A Bird of Fasination (sic)
Paint on canvas
14 x 21 inches
LG 218
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Ambassador
Paint on canvas
22 1/8 x 17 7/8
inches
LGMT 1
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The Waiter
Paint and Pen
on Canvas
27 x 14 inches
LGMT 3
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The
Midwesterner
Paint on Canvas
27 x 27 ¼
inches
LGMT4
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Velma
Paint on Canvas
22 ¾ x 18
inches
LGMT 5
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Lee
Godie
Untitled (Figure with Green Tie)
Pen, watercolor on canvas
26 x 19 ¼ inches
MHG 21
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Untitled (Two Hands on Beige Background)
Pen, watercolor on canvas
8 ¾ x 22 ¾ inches
MHG 17
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Untitled ("Smiles" Profile in Brown)
Pen, watercolor on canvas
26 x 17 inches
MHG 16
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Handsome Prince
Pen, watercolor on canvas
26 ½ x 18 ½ inches
MHG 8
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Untitled (Three Bow Tied Figures)
Pen, watercolor on canvas
23 ½ x 52 inches
MHG 3
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Untitled (Three Blond Women)
Pen, watercolor on canvas
17 x 54 ½ inches
MHG 1
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Lady in Waiting
c. 1970
Watercolor, varnish on canvas
18 x 18 inches
CHG 218
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Untitled (Male)
Mixed media
23 ¼ x 31 inches
CHG 217
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Two Girls
c. 1980
Acrylic, ball point pen on canvas
26 x 36 ½ inches
LG 190
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Egyptian Girls
Mixed media on canvas
35 ½ x 20 inches
LG 157
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Lee Godie photographs
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In
1968, a French Impressionist artist appeared on the stairway of the Art
Institute of Chicago. At the entrance to the city's most esteemed art institution,
Lee Godie began to sell her canvases - paintings which she compared favorably
with Cezanne's. The term
"French Impressionist" was abruptly updated.
Godie's paintings concurrently captured the face of the city and the
persona of its dwellers. The John
Hancock Tower became an icon for Chicago. Birds,
leaves, twigs, and insects symbolized the natural world, which Godie ingeniously
inhabited in the heart of the city. Her distilled impressions and perception
captivated countless artists, collectors, and casual observers - the subjects of
many of her portraits. As
intentionally as she became a French Impressionist, Lee Godie became a famous
artist.
Thousands of
paintings later, Lee Godie the famous artist has had gallery exhibitions and
museum shows. She has become an
icon in the Chicago art world. With
her art successfully, with compromise to nothing- the weather, the art world, or
any social conventions. Though
some have pondered the orientation of her sanity, few would question her impact
as an artist in the city. Perhaps
as powerful as her paintings, Godie's tenacious originality has continually
reminded artists, collectors, and casual observers that life and art can be
invented, and not merely emulated.
Lee Godie has
maintained an aura of privacy regarding the facts of her life.
When asked about her birth date, she replied "I don't celebrate my
birthday, I celebrate my status as an artist."
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The chronology
of her life as an artist follows:
1968
Lee Godie appears on the steps of The Art Institute of Chicago
1979
Godie's paintings included in Art in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1968-1990
The artist resides on and around the streets of Chicago, selling her
paintings nearly every day
1991
Lee Godie: Drawings and Paintings, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993
Lee Godie: French Impressionist, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993
Artist- Lee Godie, A 20 Year Retrospective, Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, IL
1994
Lee Godie passes away
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