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Lee Godie (USA, 1908-1994) Painting
Lee Godie (USA, 1908-1994) Painting
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Lee Godie (USA, 1908-1994), Untitled, mixed-media Painting on canvas, under plexiglass in a wood frame. Size: 79" x 56" (canvas), 85" x 64" (frame). Provenance: Carl Hammer Gallery.

For a time, Lee Godie (1908-1994) was a fixture of downtown Chicago, selling her canvases on the stairway of the Art Institute of Chicago; enduringly, however, she is a fixture of 20th century American self-taught art. Born Jamot Emily Godie, the artist found herself homeless after the reputed failure of her marriage and the death of two of her three children. She spent nearly three decades living on the streets of Chicago, notable for wearing eccentric fashion—different swatches of fabric, an assemblage of fur coats—as well as peddling her artwork under her self-appointed designation as a “French Impressionist.” Employing a variety of media--watercolor, tempera, pencil, crayon, pen—Godie worked with any surface she could find, from canvas to window shades. Much of her work, like her work of mixed media on canvas at auction, features young women, frequently dressed in fashions from the first half of the twentieth century. The seven young ladies on this canvas are arrayed with diamond-shapes in different colors, perhaps jewelry; their relationship to the two birds, facing inwards, is mysterious. A 20-year retrospective of Godie’s work showed at the Chicago Cultural Center for over a decade, and galleries from New York to London have showcased her photographs and drawings. Her work also appears in the permanent collections of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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