Includes (12) unframed works from North Carolina Spring Earth series, 1984, each a watercolor mounted to arches paper, pencil signed, dated, and inscribed "for Clela and Ruth," including title page addressed to Clela Reeves and Ruth Warfel; and (2) additional works: Summer Horizon, 1981, watercolor mounted to paper, signed and dated at lower margin, inscribed "Greetings to Clela & Ruth," unframed; and Massachusetts Dush-Valley, 1993, mixed media collage on paper, signed and inscribed to lower margin, unframed; all works presented in a bound portfolio with blind stamp of the artist's name.

Most sheet sizes 14 x 10 1/2 in.; The Portfolio 15 1/2 x 12 in.

Collection of a Gentleman, Richmond, Virginia and Lincolnville, Maine

Lee Hall was a North Carolina native and renowned Abstract Expressionist, whose muses were the American and Mediterranean landscapes. Loosely titled by the locale they represent, her poetic landscapes are iterations of the tradition of abstraction derived from meditations on nature, whose forebears include a myriad of great minds from painters of the Sung Dynasty to modernist John Marin.

Hall's legacy is that of an exceptional painter, respected educator, and writer. Hall stood with the great artists of the New York School, earning herself representation at Betty Parsons' famed New York gallery. She also served as President of the esteemed Rhode Island School of Design, and she has written several books, including biographies of Willem and Elaine DeKooning and Betty Parsons.

Lee Hall generously left her estate to the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. The proceeds from acquisitions of her work through the gallery directly fund the museum's educational programs (Courtesy of Jerald Melberg Gallery).

Good estate condition, some works with very minor toning and wear to the edges.