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La Capa Roja by Lee Purcell
La Capa Roja
Lee Purcell
Title
La Capa Roja
Artist
Lee Purcell
1911 - 1983 (biography)Year
1953
Technique
color serigraph
Image Size
19 x 15"
Signature
pencil, lr
Edition Size
40
Annotations
titled & dated
Reference
Paper
cream wove
State
published
Publisher
Inventory ID
HH102
Price
SOLD
Description
Though he was born in Indiana and first pursued art in New York, Purcell is often associated with the Southern California printmaking scene. Purcell moved to Los Angeles in the late 1940s where he continued to study art with Rico Lebrun and Howard Warshaw, while working as a designer and aircraft packager. During this time he learned serigraphy from his neighbor Guy Maccoy (1904-1981) who is credited by many with developing serigraphy as an art form while working in the WPA. Maccoy went on to co-found the Western Serigraph Society in Los Angeles, of which Purcell was an early member. Purcell later studied painting and Impressionism with Viona Ann Kendall.