Erica Lee
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Erica Lee (1888–1981) was a British artist and sculptor who specialised in portrait heads and busts.
Biography
Lee was born at Prestwich, Lancashire (now in Greater Manchester) and studied under the sculptors Edwin Whitney Smith and Sir William Reid Dick in London.{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=Dark River|year=2019|title= British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts |isbn=978-1-911121-63-3}} Lee established a studio in the St John's Wood area of London and worked as a professional sculptor for almost six decades.{{cite web |author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib7_1204825188 |title=Miss Erica Lee ARBS |year=2011|access-date=2 September 2021|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951}} She created heads, busts and portrait reliefs in both bronze and terracotta.{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze |isbn= 0902028553}} Other works created by Lee included memorials and grave markers, including one for the artist Sydney Lee, a relative.{{cite web|url=https://sculptors.org.uk/about/our-archive/pioneering-women/erica-lee|title=Erica Lee FRBS|website=Royal Society of Sculptors|access-date=2 September 2021}}
Lee was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at the Paris Salon where she won an Honourable mention in 1930.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}{{Cite web |title=Erica Lee FRBS {{!}} Royal Society of Sculptors |url=https://sculptors.org.uk/about/our-archive/pioneering-women/erica-lee |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=sculptors.org.uk}} Between the 1920s and 1960s, Lee showed a total of 43 works at the Royal Academy in London and exhibited 18 pieces with the Society of Women Artists.
Lee was a fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and was elected to the Societe des Artistes Francais.
References
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Further reading
- British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century by Alan Windsor, 2003, published by Ashgate, {{isbn|1-85928-4566}}
- Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950 by Grant M. Waters, 1975, published by Eastbourne Fine Art
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Category:20th-century British sculptors
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:Artists from Manchester
Category:English women sculptors