Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee

Bertha Elizabeth Stringer Lee (1869-1937) was an American painter, known for her California landscapes painted within the California Impressionist style.

Bertha Elizabeth Lee (née Stringer) was born on December 6, 1869 in San Francisco. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley and went upon to testing painting taking into consideration Amédée Joullin, William Keith, Arthur Frank Mathews, and Raymond Yelland.[where?]

She married Eugene Lee in 1894. The couple lived in San Francisco and Lee primarily painted California scenes.

She exhibited her play at the Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She along with exhibited at the California State Fair, the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition, and the Mark Hopkins Institute. In 1922 she had a one-woman put-on at Richelieu Gallery in San Francisco.

Lee died upon March 19, 1937 in Palo Alto, California.

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