On View
Not on viewObject number1977/8.35
Afternoon Tea
Maker
Doris Emrick Lee
(American, 1905-1983)
Date1949
Mediumlithograph
Dimensionsimage: 9 in. × 11 1/4 in. (22.9 × 28.6 cm)
sheet: 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm)
mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Cornelia Robinson
Exhibition History"36 Regionalist prints from the KIA," Dennos Museum Center (Sept. 8 - Nov. 24, 1996), Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, MI (May 17 - July 13, 1997), Midland Center for the Arts (Aug. 2 - Sept. 21, 1997).
"Artists as Storytellers," KIA Nay Gallery (Feb. 12 - Nov. 10, 2000).
Label TextPerhaps because she so often selected nostalgic memories of childhood for her subjects and because her figures have a quaint stiffness, Doris Lee has sometimes been categorized as a “primitive” artist. While there might be a similarity in overall affect between Lee and a true primitivist like Grandma Moses, her compositions have a sophisticated structure and finish that are missing in Moses. Lee has consciously adopted a primitive idiom in her work because that style yields the atmosphere of her subjects. Afternoon Tea, however spontaneous and untutored it may appear at first glance, is a work in which the artist is in complete control of her technique.
