Hughie Lee-Smith
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personAmerican, 1915–1999
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May 2026 · $90.0K
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Paintings: $61.3K medianWorks on paper: $7.0K medianEditioned prints: $4.3K medianEditioned objects: $6.3K medianPosters/ephemera: $1.0K medianUnclassified lots: $3.0K median
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Current Exhibitions1

Hughie Lee-Smith: Still Lifes

Hughie Lee-Smith

188 E 2nd St, New York, NY 10009, United States

May 12, 2026 — Jul 10, 2026

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Past Exhibitions1

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Collection Installation: American Modernism

Suzy Frelinghuysen, George L.K. Morris, Theodore Roszak, Charles Shaw, Esphyr Slobodkina, Alexander Calder, Gertrude Abercrombie, Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Edward Hopper, Hughie Lee-Smith, Andrew Wyeth

1 Museum Dr, Greenwich, CT 06830, USA

Jan 1, 2023

Collection Installation: American Modernism April 2, 2023 – Oct. 15, 2023

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Hughie Lee-Smith dies
Jan 1, 1999
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Hughie Lee-Smith born
Jan 1, 1915
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