On View
Not on viewObject number1977/8.23
Thanksgiving
Maker
Doris Emrick Lee
(American, 1905-1983)
Date1942
Mediumlithograph
Dimensionsmat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 12 × 17 1/16 in. (30.5 × 43.3 cm)
image: 8 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (22.2 × 29.8 cm)
sheet: 12 × 17 1/16 in. (30.5 × 43.3 cm)
image: 8 3/4 × 11 3/4 in. (22.2 × 29.8 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Cornelia Robinson
Exhibition History"A Century of Caring: One Hunderd Years of American Realism," KIA (May 18 - Aug. 3, 1986).
"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).
"The Woman as Subject: Selections from the Permanent Collection," KIA Long Gallery (June 13 - Sept. 8, 2003).
"Celebrate!" KIA KIA Upjohn Mason Grandchildren Interactive Gallery (September 23, 2023 - January 14, 2024)
Label TextOne of a large family from Aledo, Illinois, Doris Lee grew up surrounded by all the comforts and pleasures available to an affluent family in a small Midwestern town. After college she studied art, first in Kansas City and later in Paris, where she adopted the style of the abstractionists then in vogue. On her return to America in 1930, she went to San Francisco where she studied with Arnold Blanch (later her husband), who advised her to paint subjects that she understood. She then began to concentrate on the reminiscences of her childhood and scenes from the world around her, subjects that occupied her for the rest of her life. Thanksgiving, drawn from memories of the holiday in her childhood home, is based on a painting by Lee now in the collection of the Chicago Art Institute.
