Draft:Chee Chin S. Cheung Lee

Life and Career
Chee Chin S. Cheung Lee (May 4 1896 - January 31 1966) Painter, lithographer. Lee was born in Hoy Ping (Kaiping), China on May 4, 1896 and deceased in San Francisco, US on January 31 1966. He began his art study at a young age back to when he was in China.

He immigrated to San Francisco, California in 1914, where he studied English for a few years first. Then he went to California School of Fine Arts to continue his study of art for 5 years, where he was greatly influenced by Gottardo Piazzoni and Spencer Macky.

After getting married in China in the age of 29, he returned to California, where he was employed by Federal Art Project. He created artworks of landscape and cityscape of San Francisco and California and actively exhibited during the next decades until he decreased in 1966.

Artworks
Waterfront and Street Scene, 1937

Landscape and Harbor

Mountain View and Waterfront

The barge near the rocks

Marina garden; Hillside by the sea (2 works)

The barge near the rocks

River through the mountains, 1939

Trees beside the water, 1947

Road to the river, 1947

The railroad

Figural studies (5 works)

By the tracks (+ Buildings at the water's..., 1937

Landscape, 1947