Lee Weiss

Lee Weiss
Born Elyse Crouse
1928 (age 89–90)
Englewood, California
Other names Elyse Weiss
Education California College of the Arts

Lee Weiss (born 1928) is an American painter known for her watercolors.[1]

Early life and education

Lee was born as Elyse Crouse in 1928 in Englewood, California, and raised in nearby Santa Ana, California.[2]

She attended California College of Arts and Crafts for a year,[2] studied under Nels Eric Oback, and was critiqued by Alexander Nepote. However, for the most part, Weiss is a self taught artist.

Work

To achieve the specific textural qualities that she felt watercolor lacked, Weiss invented a watercolor technique in which she paints both sides of the paper, turning the paper back and forth while the paint is still wet. That way, the paint from one side transfers to the table and then to the other side of the paper, along with some of the table's texture. This process is continued until an adequate surface has been built up to suggest a subject and composition. In general, she works away from the subject matter, in the studio without sketches or slides, allowing the process of painting to guide the portrayal. She also works in a more traditional manner, foregoing the surface treatment of the paper, and starting directly with a brush and subject.[2]

She painted her impressions of a space shuttle launch in 1984, under the auspices of the NASA art program.

Awards and fellowships

Weiss has won watercolor awards including the Medal of Honor for Watercolor at the Knickerbocker Artists and the Emily Lowe Memorial Award.[3]

In 2011 she was awarded a Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Award.[4]

Selected exhibitions

Lee Weiss has had solo exhibitions in California, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, including a 1962 solo museum show at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. She has been included in international group exhibitions in Japan and France.[5]

Her work was on display in the White House, in 1969 and 1972, when her paintings were selected for this honor by the Smithsonian Institution.[4]

Collections

Lee Weiss has work in over sixty museum and corporate collections,[6] including: the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[7] Racine Art Museum,[8] Milwaukee Art Museum.[9]

Publications

  • Lee Weiss, 25 years in Wisconsin : a survey of paintings from 1962 to 1987 (1987)[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Lee Weiss". US Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior. 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  2. 1 2 3 Horvath, Horvath (January 23, 2015). "Lee Weiss: Quick Sketch". Wisconsin Watercolor Society. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Artist Biography for Lee Weiss". askART. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  4. 1 2 "Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Awards: Lee Weiss". Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Awards. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  5. ↑ "Lee Weiss." Museum of Wisconsin Art.
  6. ↑ Levy, Hannah Heidi. Famous Wisconsin: Artists and Architects. Oregon, WI: Badger Books, 2004. p. 232
  7. ↑ "SAAM Artist: Lee Weiss". Smithsonian. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  8. ↑ "75 at 75: Significant Works from RAM's Collection". Racine Art Museum. 2017. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
  9. ↑ "Scattered Sun and Snow". Milwaukee Art Museum. Retrieved 2018-06-10.
  10. ↑ Pepich, Bruce W. (1987). Lee Weiss, 25 years in Wisconsin : a survey of paintings from 1962 to 1987. Racine, Wis.: Racine Art Association, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

Further reading

  • Levy, Hannah Heidi (2004). Famous Wisconsin: Artists and Architects. Oregon, WI: Badger Books.
  • Weiss, Lee (1981). Watercolors II, The Seventies. American Printing & Publishing Inc.
  • Weiss, Lee (1990). Watercolors III. Winchell Art Publications.
  • Weiss, Lee. "Watercolor Artwork from Lee Weiss". Retrieved 1 February 2014.


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