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Juror of Awards
Lee Weiss
Lee Weiss is one of America’s most distinguished watercolorists. She was born in Inglewood, California and attended California College of Arts and studied briefly with Alex Nepote and Eric Oback. Watercolors by Lee Weiss are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art, the Nation- al Air & Space Museum (NASA), the Phillips Collection and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC and in 26 other Public Collections all over the United States
Weiss was made a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in 1985 and named a Dolphin Fellow of the Ameri- can Watercolor Society in 1991. She is past President of the Water- color USA Honor Society.
Her paintings have been exhibited in the Setagaya and Meguro Museums in Tokyo and the Saitama Museum of Art, Saitama, Japan numerous times between 1988 and 2008. She was one of 26 Ameri- cans with work in the First Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary International Watermedia Masters in Nanjing, China in 2007.
She received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Watercolor USA Honor Society in 2009 and another from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in 2011.
Lee Weiss Watercolors, a monograph by Dr H. Lester Cooke 1970 Exploring Painting, Gerald F. Brommer 1977 Davis Publications Master Class in Watercolor, Edward Betts, Watson-Guptill l975 Watercolor Bold & Free, Lawrence C. Goldsmith, Watson-Guptill 1980 Layering, an Art of Time & Space, Mary Carroll Nelson, The Albuquer- que Museum 1985
The Phillips Collection – A Summary Catalogue, Washington, DC 1985
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