Artwork by Lee Clarke Schuyler
"Questa"
"Questa" 1982 Oil. This rock is located in Taos county, near the confluence of the Rio Grande and Red Rivers.
This is one of the few paintings by Lee from the early 1980's, because at that time she was facing significant health challenges and didn't paint a great deal. However, Trudie and the family had moved from Tsaile, AZ, to Atlanta, GA. Many years later, returning to NM after retirement and Lee's passing in 2000, Lorna took her parents on an excursion to Questa to try to locate the site of this painting.
From the collection of Toni and Rick Cobb.
Dogwood Time on Drewry
"Dogwood Time on Drewry" by Lee Clarke Schuyler 1988. Oil. Size 20 x 24. After the Schuylers relocated from Los Lunas, NM to Atlanta in 1987, Ted, who considered the Southwest his "inspirational home for art", did almost no painting except for return visits to Albuquerque in the summers of 1987, '88, and '09. Lee, however, haven't recently overcome several health issues, relished the Southern scenery. Green was her favorite color, and she thoroughly enjoyed the extravagant spring and fall foliage of the "Tree City", Atlanta. As Ray and Trudie were moving from Atlanta back to Albuquerque, many of the paintings they have "held" are finding permanent homes with other Schuyler descendants. This one is now in the collection of Athena Barreras Jordan.
Bridge
"Bridge" 1964 Watercolor by Lee Clarke Schuyler. The bridge was at Las Huertas on the eastern side of the Sandia mountains. This remote picnic area was a favorite sketching location for the Schuylers over many years, and was a spot to which Ted often took art classes when Trudie was a child. Lee did both and oil and this watercolor of the picturesque bridge, as illustrated here.
From the collection of Toni & Rick Cobb
Bridge, 2
by Lee Clarke Schuyler. Oil. As a result of the limitations on her "freedom" to go out sketching as frequently as Ted did, Lee often re-worked some of her paintings in a different medium. This is a charming example. The same bridge at Las Huertas is rendered here in Oil, in a somewhat larger size. From the collection of Diana Guinn. In even later years, when other circumstances further inhibited her sketching opportunities, Lee revisited a number of her former paintings via pen and pencil sketches and on a few occasions, etchings.
"Vaquero"
"Vaquero" 1928 Charcoal. From the collection of Toni and Rick Cobb This was a student work from Lee's days at the Art Institute of Chicago, one of several which survived in portfolio until her descendants were able to "claim and frame" them.
Child with Duckling
"Child with Duckling" is the only major piece of sculpture done by Lee Schuyler still in existence. It was carved from a small ash-wood log. Since ash is an extremely hard wood, this carving represents a monumental amount of effort. Lee did, in fact, aspire to be a sculptor, and would have loved to be able to do monumental bronze figure studies such as the sculptures of Malvina Hoffman that were on display at the Field Museum, and which she took 9-year-old Trudie to view on their trip to Chicago in 1948, an event which her elder daughter believes was pivotal in her own aspirations and interests. This is why, perhaps, the child was willing to do the tedious job of posing for this carving.
Carving of daughter Trudie. 1951. From the collection of Toni & Rick Cobb
"Laird"
"Laird" Not officially named. (Student work from Lee's days at the Art Institute of Chicago.) As is typical with student work, these are not considered eligible for "sole attribution" to the artist, since they have been critiqued and may even have had "hands-on" demonstration from the instructor.
circa 1928. This charcoal drawing was named by Toni Cobb. From the collection of Toni & Rick Cobb.
"Desert de los Leones"
1936. Watercolor by Lee Clarke Schuyler. Painted in Mexico during the Schuylers' extended painting trip of the 1930's. From the collection of Rick & Toni Cobb. As young "struggling artists" during the Depression, Ted and Lee made an extended painting trip with another young artist couple through Mexico, doing sketches along the way, which were sent back to an art dealer in Chicago who underwrote some of the costs of the trip and in addition served as their sales agent. They also made private sales to friends and relatives on the same sort of "sell-as-you-go" arrangement.
Blue Flowers (?)
"Blue Flowers?" by Lee Clarke Schuyler. 1987. Oil. The scene was on a rural road near Conyers, GA. which is now probably redeveloped into suburban lots. Lee and Ted both painted there one early summer afternoon. From the collection of Toni & Rick Cobb
Sand Trees
by Lee Clarke Schuyler. Oil, 1964. A very large part of Lee's art work was done in the studio, because unlike Ted, she did relatively little outdoor sketching in watercolor. This painting is an example of an interpretation, probably derived from a quick sketch made somewhere in New Mexico. From the collection of Lorna Barreras and Melvin Gorman.
Wisteria
