Background
Mcfee, Henry Lee was born on April 14, 1886 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. Son of Theodore Ford and Harriet Potter (Mason) M.
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Henry Lee McFee
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Graduate Kemper Military School, Boonville, Missouri, 1905. Studied Art Student League, 1909.
Career
In 1907, he inherited a large sum of money, allowing him to enroll in the Stevenson Art School and pursue painting full-time. He was heavily influenced by the two summers he spent attending classes at the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York, studying under L. Birge Harrison. In November 1913, McFee exhibited six works at the MacDowell Club.
In 1919, McFee was one of the founders of the Woodstock Artists’ Association, along with Andrew Dasburg, Carl Eric Lindin, John Carlson, and Frank Swift Chase.
In 1920, his work was shown at the Gallerie Georges Petit"s International Art Exhibition in Paris. McFee"s first one-man show was in 1927 at the Rehn Galler.
In 1939 McFee was appointed Director at the Witte Museum School of Art, which was sponsored by the San Antonio Art League. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1940, and in 1940-1941 he held positions at Claremont Graduate School and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, California.
McFee"s synchromist and cubist influenced works were exhibited at many notable venues throughout his career, including the Carnegie Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy, the Corcoran Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum.
McFee died in 1953 of pneumonia at Saint Luke Hospital in Pasadena, California.
Achievements
Membership
Member National Academy Design. National Institute Arts and Letters.
Connections
Married Aileen Fletcher, September 7, 1913 (deceased). Married second, Eleanor Fletcher Brown, August 7, 1937.
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United States