Art in Alternative Spaces
Featured Artist
Lee Godie
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Double Sided! Very Hard to Find! 3 Girls/Princess Charming/Chicago City of Plenty 52" x 21" Paint and Ink Pen on Canvas Window Shade Condition: Fair |
Artist's Biography
Born in 1908, Emily "Lee" Godie was a true street artist - living and creating art on the streets of Chicago. In the late 60's, she often sat on a chair on the sidewalks of Michigan Avenue in Chicago to create her artwork. Sometimes she just sat on the sidewalk itself. She also created her work sitting on the steps of the Art Institute of Chicago. She drew with an ink pen and sometimes colored the images. She used recycled materials to create her work long before recycling was popular. In the beginning, she created many of her works on canvas window shades (drawing images on both sides of the shade), not because recycling as popular, but because they were cheap and easy to find. She also created her work on hard boards, then poster boards and later unstretched canvas. She often drew what she saw: Chicago's downtown buildings, the businessmen coming and going to work and high society women, as well as birds, trees and other nature images. She sold her works to passersby.
"Artist Lee Godie: A Twenty-Year Retrospective", curated by Michael Bonesteel, was presented at the Chicago Cultural Center, March 13, 1993 to January 16, 1994. Her works are in the permanent collections of Arkansas Arts Center and the National Museum of American Art; Smithsonian Institution. Lee passed away in 1994, leaving a legacy of artwork which continues to be collected by many private individuals and is in high demand.© 2009 No text or photograph contained in the pages of this website may be reproduced without the expressed written permission of the artist and/or Anatomically Correct.
© 2010 No text or photograph contained in the pages of this website may be reproduced without the expressed written permission of the artist and/or Anatomically Correct.
