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Dora Fugh Lee
Dora Fugh Lee
Born1929 (1929)
Beijing, China
NationalityAmerican
OccupationArtist

Dora Fugh Lee, nee Fu Duoruo, is a Chinese-American painter, illustrator, and sculptor born and classically trained in China and influenced by and immersed in European styles. Her work has been recognized and added to prominent public and private art collections in Asia and North America including the Smithsonian Institution.

Early life and education

When Lee was four years old, her grandfather, Fu Ruiqing, identified her as a promising artist and taught her ink painting and calligraphy. At eleven years old, Lee began studying figure painting under Yan Shaoxing, a renowned master. Under Yan, she studied the realistic portrait painting technique, Gongbi. While attending an all-girls Catholic school in Beijing, Lee studied under a master of modern fine brushwork flower-and-bird painting, Zhao Mengzhu. Zhao was a member of the Hu She art movement known as the “Cradle of Modern Chinese Painting."[1][2]

Family background

Lee is a member of the Manchu Fuca clan and was born in Beijing in 1929. She comes from a long line of distinguished military leaders, nobles, and artists with ties to both the East and West [3] The first empress of the Qianlong Emperor, Empress Xiaoxianchun, Grand Secretary Fuheng, and Prince Fuk'anggan of the Qing Dynasty are among the ancestors of the Fu family.

Career

Newlyweds Dora and Richard Lee moved to Tokyo, Japan in 1949, where she became a student of Pu Ru, the leading literati painter of modern China and cousin of Chinese emperor Pu Yi. In 1957, Dora Lee immigrated to Washington, DC, where she apprenticed under the Italian-American artist and sculptor Pietro Lazzari. She later taught Chinese painting and calligraphy at the Smithsonian Institution and George Washington University.[4][5][6][7][8]

Recognition and legacy

In her career, Lee has earned over fifty distinguished awards. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of Asian Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the China Institute, the Pearl Buck Foundation, the National Cathedral, and the University of Virginia among other notable institutions.[9] In 2021, a first retrospective of her work was exhibited at the Chinese American Museum DC.[10][11][12][13]

Oil painting by Dora Fugh Lee, Willard Hotel, Washington, DC 2004. The Chinese American Museum DC

References

  1. ^ "Dora Fugh Lee – U.S. Department of State".
  2. ^ A View of Three Cultures through the Eyes of Three Contemporary Women Writers, Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute https://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/1992/4/92.04.10/6
  3. ^ “Dora Fugh Lee: A Lifetime of Art” companion program and artist biography. September 2021, Chinese American Museum Foundation
  4. ^ Smithsonian Institution Notes on Bust of Thomas Lawton https://sova.si.edu/search/ark:/65665/dc35bb77bd5d5524ac9aad8dffa91e4c08f
  5. ^ Smithsonian Institution Notes on Bust of Charles Lang Freer https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.92.2
  6. ^ Dora Fugh Lee: Retrospective of Seventy Years in Art, Meniscus Magazine, December 7, 2016 https://www.meniscuszine.com/articles/2016120741540/dora-fugh-lee-retrospective-of-seventy-years-in-art
  7. ^ Dora Fugh Lee, 1930- Artist - Smithsonian Collections https://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID:SILAF_36544
  8. ^ Richard Lee, Obituary, Washington Post, December 31, 2017 https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/washingtonpost/name/richard-lee-obituary?id=6091994
  9. ^ CCACC Gallery, Rockville, Maryland. https://www.ccaccartgallery.org/post/retrospective-of-seventy-years-in-art-by-dora-fugh-lee
  10. ^ "Dora Fugh Lee: A Lifetime of Art". Chinese American Museum Washington, DC. Retrieved December 27, 2023.
  11. ^ “A Lifetime of Art” complete catalog. 155 pages, Published by the Handel Lee and Fugh Family. October 2021
  12. ^ "Dora Lee's City Views" Benjamin Forgey, Washington Post, September 1, 1983 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1983/09/01/dora-lees-city-views/5a069340-1b25-4857-bcda-1181f30caf3b
  13. ^ National League of American Pen Women, Bust of Pearl S. Buck, Dora Fugh Lee https://www.nlapw.org/pen-arts-building/
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