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Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee

Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee (1869 - 1937) was active/lived in California.  Bertha Lee is known for Landscape, coastal view painting.

A painter of California landscapes especially in the Bay Area, Monterey, and Lake Tahoe, Bertha Lee was born in San Francisco, on December 6, 1869.  In 1907, she traveled to the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

She was the daughter of William Stringer, wealthy president of a storage company, and Ida May Herzog Stringer, and as a young woman, was a socialite as well as art student.

She studied in the studio of William Keith, and at the California School of Design with Arthur Mathews, and briefly in New York with Joseph Mathews and Paris and Germany.  At age 14 she was exhibiting locally.

In 1894 she married Louis Eugene Lee, an electrician, and maintained a studio in her home at 2744 Steiner Street where she gave teas and without a need to sell her work commercially, made gifts of her paintings to friends.  Tragically many of her paintings were destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire.

Of her fascination with painting scenes of California, she said:   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3269 characters.]  Artist bio

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