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Lee Hall

Lee Hall (1934 - 2017) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts.  Lee Hall is known for Geometric abstract landscape painting, teaching, writing.

"Lee Hall, Artist and de Kooning Biographer, Dies at 82"
By William Grimes, May 16, 2017, Obituaries, The New York Times

Lee Hall, an abstract landscape painter who served as president of the Rhode Island School of Design in the 1970s and ’80s and wrote a hotly contested biography of the painters Elaine and Willem de Kooning, died on April 17 in Northampton, Mass. She was 82.

Margaret Horsnell, a friend, said the cause was gastric cancer.

Ms. Hall specialized in lyrical, evocative landscapes whose flat color planes and geometric forms alluded to the natural world rather than describing it. “They are about nuances of weather and nuances of feeling, with just the right small shift of color and form to make her intentions quite clear,” the critic John Russell wrote in The New York Times in 1979.

She showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery, which played a pivotal role in advancing the work of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and other ar   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13389 characters.]  Artist bio

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