Untitled (Three Women)

1966

Hughie Lee-Smith

(American, 1915–1999)

Culture

America

Medium

monoprint

Measurements

Sheet: 24.1 x 33.2 cm (9 1/2 x 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ron Rumford in honor of Daniel Postotnik 2025.164

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

Hughie Lee-Smith attended the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art) in 1935 and was one of its first Black graduates.

Description

Hughie Lee-Smith was a Cleveland-based artist associated with the printmaking workshop at Karamu House, a community art center founded as a settlement house in 1915. He was one of the founders of Karamu Artists Inc., a Black printmaking collective focused on achieving professionalization and using art to serve the community. Lee-Smith left Cleveland in the 1940s, and turned to painting as his primary medium, creating figural works infused with a sense of surrealism and alienation. This rare, late monoprint reflects his painting practice as well as the artist’s continued interest in the print medium.