Artist, painter and art teacher, born in Christchurch and attended the Canterbury University College School of Fine Arts, as well as studying in Brittany in 1955. He painted many scenes around Banks Peninsula and also produced figure studies and woodcuts. He won the Kelliher Art Award and exhibited several times at the Paris Salon. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (London) in 1962. He taught art at St Peter's School Cambridge (1946-1955), Waitakere High School, Takapuna Grammar (for much of the period 1956-1975), Otago Polytech (mid-1970s), and others.
Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002
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Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002 :[Photographs of artwork. 1950-1970s?].
Date: 1950 - 1979
By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002; Farmer-Lee, E, active 1970s
Reference: E-615
Description: Includes photographs of drawings of buildings made for his book "Patterns of the past; some historic New Zealand buildings" (1977). Also includes photographs of eight portrait drawings of heads and nudes. The buildings featured in the drawings are (from North): St John's Church Waimate North; Stone store and mission house Kerikeri; Mansion house Kawau; Ferry Building Quay Street Auckland; Chief Post office Auckland; Jewish Synagogue Auckland; Melanesian Mission Museum Mission Bay; Ewelme Cottage Parnell Auckland; Old wooden buildings Victoria Street Auckland; "Alberton" Mt Albert Road Auckland; Mokai ghost town near Taupo; General Assembly Library and Parliament Buildings Wellington; Provincial Council Chambers Christchurch; Provincial Council Buildings - Bellamy's; Langlois-Eteveneaux Cottage Akaroa; Holme Station homestead South Canterbury; Lighthouse Timaru; Springdale historic farm buildings south of Timaru; St Augustine Church of England Waimate; Railway Station Dunedin; Corner of Cumberland and Dundas Streets Dunedin; Law Courts Dunedin; Terrace houses Stuart Street Dunedin; Buckingham Street Arrowtown; Sunderland Street Clyde. There are also three unidentified drawings (E-615-034/036). Also includes three photographs of paintings by E Farmer-Lee: "Feisal's Night Camp", "The Estuary", and Approaching dusk, Denmark, 1972" (E-615-037/039). Quantity: 39 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographs, sizes varying up to 95 x 130 mm. Provenance: From the estate of Owen R Lee. Transfers: Negatives for these photographic prints, acquired at the same time, are housed in the Photographic Archive..
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Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002 :With best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Ye...
Date: 1946 - 1955
By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002
Reference: A-356-014
Description: A greeting card featuring the crest of St Peter's School on the front, with its motto "Structa Saxo". Inside is the greeting, and a blue woodcut of a tree in a field. Dated 1946-1955, because a 1955 reference letter from the headmaster of St Peter's School, said that he had been at the school for the past nine years. (This letter came with same accession and was transferred to Manuscripts with other Owen R Lee material). Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on greeting card. Physical Description: Woodcut on greeting card, folded to 100 x 140 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 13 May 2004, lot 333. From the estate of Owen R Lee.
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Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002 :[Ship in Sydney Harbour. 1970s?].
Date: 1970 - 1980
By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002
Reference: A-356-019
Description: A reproduction of a painting by Owen R Lee showing a modern ship anchored in an arm of Sydney Harbour, with the bridge and Opera House visible in the background. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Featured Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph, 165 x 250 mm. Provenance: From the estate of Owen R Lee.
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Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002 :[Bottles. 1950-1960s?]
Date: 1950 - 1969
By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002
Reference: A-356-015
Description: A watercolour drawing of a group of medicine bottles and boxes including a box labelled "Cerebos" health saline. There is a tall blue bottle in the centre. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, on sheet, 280 x 373 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 13 May 2004, lot 333. From the estate of Owen R Lee.
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Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002 : Papers
Date: [1940-1998]
By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002
Reference: MS-Group-1275
Description: Correspondence, certificates, employment references, speech notes, articles, clippings and periodicals relating to Lee's work as an artist and art teacher Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 5 folder(s). 0.06 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescripts and printed matter Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 13 May 2004, lot 333 from the estate of Owen R Lee Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchased from Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, May 2004, lot 333
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Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002 :Photographs
Date: ca 1950s-1970s
By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002
Reference: PAColl-7973
Description: Photographs of Owen R Lee and friends, and of drawings and paintings by Lee including landscapes and female portraits. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm-80064 to 80083, 1/4-110017 to 110028-F Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original photographic print(s) contact sheets with 10 images. 2 colour original photographic print(s). 20 b&w original negative(s) strips with 76 images. 12 b&w original negative(s). Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 13 May 2004, lot 333. From the estate of Owen R Lee. Transfers: From Drawings & Prints Collection - Lee, Owen Raymond, 1928-2002 (DP-2004-031).
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A landscape painting by Owen R Lee, an entry in the Kelliher Art Prize
Date: [ca 1959]
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002
Reference: EP/1959/2596-F
Description: Copy negative taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches
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Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002 :[Three linocuts. ca 1948-1950]
Date: 1948 - 1950
By: Lee, Owen Raymond, 1918-2002
Reference: A-356-016/018
Description: One linocut show a road winding past two haystacks towards a town in the background. One shows a rural shed, and the third shows houses and buildings of a town. Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Linocuts, on sheets sizes varying from 207 x 337 mm to 280 x 375 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 13 May 2004, lot 333. From the estate of Owen R Lee.