About the Artwork
Sunrise over Lake Erie
ca. 1950
Hughie Lee-Smith
1915 - 1999
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 12 1/4 × 16 1/4 inches (31.1 × 41.3 cm) Framed: 16 1/2 × 20 1/2 inches (41.9 × 52.1 cm)
Paintings
African American Art
Gift of Nettie Seabrooks
2009.23
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Markings
Signed, lower left: Lee-Smith
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Provenance
2009-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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McCarthy, Jeremiah William and Diana Thompson, ed. For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts and National Academy of Design. New Haven and London, 2019, p. 170 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Hughie Lee-Smith, Sunrise over Lake Erie, ca. 1950, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Nettie Seabrooks, 2009.23.
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