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<p>robot: Create/update articles. If there is a mistake please report on my <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bot" title="User talk:Bot">talk page</a>.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|English painter}}<br /> <br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}<br /> {{More citations needed|date=December 2009}}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Rupert Lee&#039;&#039;&#039; (1887–1959) was an English painter, sculptor and printmaker. He was one of the organisers of the [[London International Surrealist Exhibition]] in 1936.<br /> <br /> ==Life==<br /> Lee was born in [[Bombay]] in 1887. In 1911 Lee entered the [[Slade School of Fine Art|Slade School of Art]], where he became friendly with [[Robert Gibbings]] and [[Paul Nash (artist)|Paul Nash]]. Soon after leaving the Slade he was employed by [[Edward Gordon Craig]] to be his musical director at his theatre school in Italy, but the position was cut short by the outbreak of the [[First World War]]. Lee served with the [[Queen&#039;s Westminsters|Queen&#039;s Westminster Rifles]] in the [[Machine Gun Corps]] and suffered [[shell shock]] following the [[German spring offensive|1918 Spring Offensive]]. The series of paintings and drawings he produced while serving in the [[Trench warfare|trenches]] showed him to be in sympathy with elements of [[Futurism]] and [[Vorticism]].<br /> <br /> Between 1919 and 1922 he collaborated closely with Paul and [[John Nash (artist)|John Nash]] producing wood engravings for the Sun Calendar Yearbook and the [[Poetry Bookshop]]. At this period his paintings and wood engravings were bought by notable collectors such as [[Arnold Bennett]], [[Roger Fry]] and [[Edward Marsh (polymath)|Edward Marsh]]. Turning his attention to sculpture during the 1920s, he was elected President of the London Group in 1927 and was responsible for organising the important open-air sculpture exhibition on the roof gardens of [[Selfridges]] in 1930, after which he became affiliated with [[Duncan Grant]] and [[Vanessa Bell]] of the [[Bloomsbury Group]]. He was Chairman of the 1936 [[International Surrealist Exhibition]] at the [[New Burlington Galleries]] and worked tirelessly to encourage the modern movement in England. Moving to [[Spain]] in 1946, Lee was killed in a motor accident in 1959.<br /> <br /> A major book about his life and work was published by Sansom and Co. and a retrospective was staged at the Court Gallery at Gallery 27, [[Cork Street (London)]], in May 2010.&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/rediscovering-rupert-lee-wwi-artist-in-retrospective-1954942.html Matilda Battersby, &quot;Rediscovering Rupert Lee: WWI artist in retrospective&quot;, &#039;&#039;The Independent&#039;&#039;, 29 April 2012.]&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Further reading==<br /> Denys J. Wilcox, &#039;&#039;Rupert Lee: Painter, Sculptor &amp; Printmaker&#039;&#039;, Sansom &amp; Company, 2010.<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Rupert}}<br /> [[Category:1887 births]]<br /> [[Category:1959 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century English painters]]<br /> [[Category:English male painters]]<br /> [[Category:English illustrators]]<br /> [[Category:English printmakers]]<br /> [[Category:English sculptors]]<br /> [[Category:English male sculptors]]<br /> [[Category:English wood engravers]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century British sculptors]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century British printmakers]]<br /> [[Category:British Army personnel of World War I]]<br /> [[Category:Machine Gun Corps soldiers]]<br /> [[Category:Military personnel of British India]]<br /> [[Category:Queen&#039;s Westminsters soldiers]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century English male artists]]<br /> [[Category:20th-century engravers]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{UK-artist-stub}}<br /> {{England-painter-stub}}</div>

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