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Local watercolor artist Lee Albion will
display her award winning art through August in Oldsmar City Hall
Gallery, 100 State St., Oldsmar. The public is invited to meet the
artist at a reception at City Hall at 6 p.m. Tues., July 17.
Albion, born in New York, lived much of her life in the Manhattan
area. Before university she trained at the Grand Central School of
Art in N.Y.C. She received a B.S. degree in Art Theory at
Harvard-Radcliffe College and her Master’s Degree at Columbia
University. She then spent four years at the prestigious Art
Students League in N.Y.C., working there extensively with Frank
Reilly. Thereafter, she studied at the Art Center in Los Angeles,
CA; at the Hilton Leech Studio in Sarasota, FL; and, with Mario
Cooper, former president of the American Watercolor Society. Her
commercial art career led her to draw for leading magazines and
newspapers in the U.S. such as The New Yorker, Gourmet, Saturday
Review of Literature, New York Times Book Review, and many others.
For a number of years she exclusively illustrated the weekly
Chicago Tribune Book Review. She also illustrated numerous
children’s books for John Day, J.B. Lippincott, Putnams,
Scholastic Books, and others. A collection of her commercial work
is to be found in Harvard University’s Film Archives.
Subsequently she moved to London, England, where she set up her
studio and resided for 21 years devoting herself to Fine Arts.
Albion won a number of awards and prizes while exhibiting in
England, the most prestigious being the Stanley Grimm Award for
oils, awarded once a year by the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil
and presented at a ceremony by the Duchess of Kent. She relocated
to Florida in 1994 where she is a member of The Florida Watercolor
Society, The Tarpon Springs Art Association, The Beach Art
Association of Indian Rocks Beach, The Art Center of St.
Petersburg, The Georgia Watercolor Society and Florida Suncoast
Watercolor Society. Call 813-749-1260.
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