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1. Doris Lee (1905–1983), c. 1935; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1935.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fourteenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, Mar. 24–May 5, 1935, cat. 220.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Forty–Sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, Oct. 24–Dec. 8, 1935, cat. 123.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, Nov. 16–Jan. 7, 1940, cat. 101.
• Montclair Art Museum, NJ, America Yesterday and Today, Jan. 2–26, 1941, cat. 35.
• Worcester Art Museum, MA, A Decade of American Painting: 1930–1940, Feb. 18–Mar. 22, 1942, p. 18.
• Brussels, Galerie Georges Giroux, L’Exposition d’art Américain contemporain, Mar. 20–Apr. 10, 1948, cat. 60.
• Coral Gables, FL, Miami University Art Gallery, Sept. 29–Nov. 15, 1950, no. cat.
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Famous Paintings and Famous Painters, Oct. 4–Nov. 2, 1958, cat. 21.
• Denver Art Museum, The American Panorama, Mar. 17–May 27, 1968, no cat.
• Columbus, OH, Ohio State University Art Gallery, America, ca. 1930, Oct. 12–31, 1968, no cat.
• Poughkeepsie, NY, Vassar College Art Gallery, Seven American Women: The Depression Decade, Jan. 19–Mar. 5, 1976, cat. 52.
• Wichita Art Museum, The Neglected Generation of American Realist Painters: 1930–1948, May 3–June 14, 1981, fig. 27.

• C.J. Bulliet, “Around the Galleries,” Chicago Daily News, October 26, 1935.
• "'If This Is American Art, Let's Scrap It,' Says Critic of Chicago Show," Art Digest 10, 3 (Nov. 1, 1935): 5, ill.
• Virginia Gardner, “Calls Prize Canvas Atrocious,” Chicago Tribune, November 6, 1935.
• "Awards Shock Art Patrons: Mrs. Logan Terms Pictures 'Vulgar' and 'Indecent,'" Herald–Examiner, November 8, 1935.
• “Controversy Continues over Merits of American Art Exhibition,” Chicago Tribune, November 8, 1935, 5, ill.
• “Art Show Gives “Jitters” to Mrs. Logan,” Chicago American, November 9, 1935.
• “Doris Emrick Lee Picture Shown at Chicago,” Carthage, Illinois Republican, November 13, 1935.
• Gifford Ernest, “New Art Institute Show Reveals Depression Used for Ideas in Paintings,” Chicago Daily News, November 15, 1935, 40.
• “Doris Lee’s ‘Americana’ Shown in New York,” Art Digest 10, 12 (March 15, 1936): 20.
• “Doris Lee One–Woman’s It At The Walker Gallery,” American Magazine of Art 29 (May 1936): 334.
• “Doris Lee: An American Painter with a Humorous Sense of Violence,” Life, September 20, 1937, 44.
• Josephine Hancock Logan, Sanity in Art (A. Kroch, 1937), 92 (ill.).

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Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

Art Institute of Chicago

Black and White

Art Institute of Chicago

Desert Forms

Art Institute of Chicago

Nude Bent Forward, Paris

Art Institute of Chicago

The Civet

Art Institute of Chicago

Bonnie Logan Hensley with baby John Hensley

Art Institute of Chicago

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