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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
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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
sold
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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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Gibbson Girl
(sic)
Paint on Canvas
17¾ x 18¼
inches
LGBS 8
sold
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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
sold
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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
sold
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A Bird A
Female A Bird of Fasination (sic)
Paint on canvas
14 x 21 inches
LG 218
sold
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Lady in Waiting
c. 1970
Watercolor, varnish on canvas
18 x 18 inches
CHG 218
sold
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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
sold
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Egyptian Girls
Mixed media on canvas
35 ½ x 20 inches
LG 157
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Untitled
(2 rust-colored branches)
Pen,
watercolor on canvas
17 ¾ x 49
¾ inches
LG 71
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Double
Male Portrait
Pen,
watercolor on canvas
22 x 29 ½
inches
LG 120
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A
Bi-Centennial
Oil on
canvas
26 ¼ x 22
inches
c. 1976
LG 182
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Daisies
(Lavendare (sic) Background)
Oil on
canvas, shellac finish (with photo booth picture)
20 x 42 ¼
inches
c. 1978
LG 194
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Sweet
Sixteen
Chalk and
pen on paper
38 x 25 ¼
inches
c. 1978
LG 195
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Girl in
Orange
18 ½ x 19
inches
LG 220
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Third
Lady in Waiting (Woman with Short Brown Hair, Profile)
Paint and
pen on canvas
18 ¼ x 17
¾ inches
LGBS 7
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Male
portrait
Pen on
canvas
26 x 15
inches
LG 121
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Green
Twigs
Pen,
watercolor on canvas
18 x 25
inches
c. 1970s
LG 126
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Bi-Centennial (with Bird)
Mixed
media
25 ½
x 11 ½ inches
LG 192
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Untitled
(Woman with Brown Hat and Glasses)
Watercolor on canvas
20 x 23
inches
c.
1978-80
LG 196
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Valentine
Face
Pen,
crayon on canvas
50 ½ x
38 ¾ inches
CHG 216
(formerly G-4)
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Lee Godie photographs
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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1968
1968
1976
1968-1990
1991
1993
1993
1994
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The chronology
of her life as an artist follows:
Lee Godie appears on the steps of The Art Institute of
Chicago
Godie's paintings included in Art in
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The artist resides on and around the streets of Chicago,
selling her paintings nearly every day
Lee Godie: Drawings and Paintings, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lee Godie: French Impressionist, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Artist- Lee Godie, A 20 Year Retrospective, Chicago Cultural Center,
Chicago, IL
Lee Godie passes away
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