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Lee Lester Master Artist, Hunter, Fisherman, Guide, and all around American Cowboy.
The works of Lee Lester, Colorado Master Artist, are found throughout North America, Europe, South Africa, and the Orient. Lester’s oils, pastels, watercolors, pewter, and bronze pieces form the basis of many collections around the world.
Lee Lester grew up roaming the pristine prairies of Southeastern Colorado where the abundant wildlife, the silence, and the vast vistas provided him the opportunity and time to carefully observe the fauna and flora that became the finely executed subjects of his future oils, watercolors, and bronzes.
He was born with a passion for accurate and vivid portrayal of the animals he loves. Lee began his artistic career sketching the wildlife around him when he was a young fellow on the Colorado prairie. Later the Rocky Mountain School of Art in Denver helped polish and develop his natural artistic skills.
Over decades Lee studied many classical and modern artists, drawing something from each, but he attributes his main inspiration to Carl Rungius, one of America's finest wildlife artists. Lester feels that he owes much of his sense of composition to the legendary Rungius.
Lee's artistic studies were enhanced in the fires and forges of his own Oklahoma foundry. Surrounded by white-hot heat and flying embers, midst fire and flame, Lester mastered the melding of waxen sculpture and molten metal that must combine in an almost mystical way to tear art from the very heart of fire in the lost wax method.
His eye for anatomy, proportion, movement, detail, and precision of habitat give a special power, an almost incandescent light, to each of his pieces. When you look, for example, at his Medicine Man praying over the skulls of buffalo, you can see and feel the connection to the Indian tradition and the ghostly herds of disappearing buffalo. The wings of bird in flight seem to cast a breeze over your face and you can virtually feel the water spray from leaping fish.
His ability to capture the reality, the essence, of the moment are absolutely unexcelled and, whether on canvas, paper, or bronze, each captured subject breathes the life of a perfectly true moment in time.
Lee's ability to instill reality, whether in impressionistic, stylized, or realistic pieces, serves to magnify the truth of the subject in such a way that the trees in his paintings march quietly, steadily, and eternally over the horizon; or the worn leather gear of his cowboys seem imbued with the living sweat, hard riding, and abundant humor of their era.
Almost four decades of hard work, limitless exposure in hundreds of exhibitions and one-man shows across the nation, along with ten thousand starry nights on the rivers, in the forests, and on the plains of the American continent, in the mountains of Canada, and on the expansive veldts of Africa have resulted in a variety of awards, print recognition, and a well earned reputation as Colorado's Master Artist.
Born Sylvester Lee Lester III, in Flagler, Colorado, Lee attended the Rocky Mountain School of Art in Denver, Colorado in the early seventies, designed, owned, and operated his own foundry from 1976 to 1985. Lee owned a variety of galleries and, for a time, instructed students in pastel and watercolor. He roams the world as a professional guide and expedition commander as a way of being in communion with wildlife around the world and, as he says, “… as a way of not getting too stale behind the easel.”
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