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Alfred Lee A native of Galveston, Texas, Alfred Lee attended the University of Houston, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Commercial Art and English, a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education, and his Master of Education degree in Art and Special Education. Formerly the Chairman of the Art Department at Ebbert L. Furr Junior/Senior High School, he was also on the faculty of the Art League of Houston, and the Houston Jewish Community Center where he taught painting, watercolor, commercial art, and printmaking. He was the owner and director of The Alfred Lee Gallery of Houston from 1969 to 1978 when he closed in order to devote full time to his art work.

Mr. Lee has works in over 3500 public, private, corporate, and museum collections in the United States, Central and South America, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. His works were selected to be placed in the Houston Home Builders' Computer Home which was built especially for the National Home Builders' Convention in Houston in 1970, and which was seen in House Beautiful, February, 1971. His works have also been seen in Art Voices/South, July and September, 1979, and Art in America. He has also done commercial work for the University of Houston publications The Fly's Eye and Harvest, and was the 1965 recipient of the Catherine Louden Memorial Award. He has done commercial work for Allright Auto Parks, Budget Signs, and the Houston Astrodome.

Mr. Lee's works hang in The United States National Bank, Galveston; Temple B'Nai Israel, Galveston; The Rosenberg Library, Galveston; The Joske Collection, Houston; The University of Houston Touring Collection; The First Hutchins-Sealy National Bank, Galveston; The Jung Center, Houston; The Exxon Building, Houston; Corporate Management Services, Houston; Harry Reed and Company, Houston; Page Products, Houston; The Commerce North Bank, San Antonio; Ross, Griggs, and Harrison, Houston; Armco, Inc., Houston; Central Coffee, Houston; The First Victoria National Bank, Victoria; Stacey Electric, Houston; Suburban Savings, San Antonio; Excel Mineral Company, Santa Barbara; W.R. Grace, Dallas; Prairie View University, Prairie View; Northcrust, San Antonio; Sigmor Corporation, San Antonio; The President's Reception Room of Hofheinz Pavillion at the University of Houston; Woodbridge Corporation, San Antonio; Rockwell International, Dallas; The Bank of Montreal; Texas Instruments, Houston; The Alexandria Museum, Alexandria; Fulbright and Jaworski, Houston; The Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce, Clear Lake; Texas Wesleyan College's Collection of Texas Painters, Fort Worth; Darwin Investments, Santa Monica; Reading and Bates Drilling Company, Houston; Valero Energy Corporation, San Antonio; Mercantile National Bank, Dallas; Oppenheimer and Rosenberg, San Antonio; Metropolitan National Bank, Dallas; Diamond Shamrock Corporation - World Headquarters, Dallas; Geosource Inc., Houston; Bank Building Corporation, Dallas; Galveston Wharves Company, Galveston; Arthur Young and Company, Dallas; Equitable Life Insurance Company, Colorado Springs; Advanced Instuctional Management Systems, Long Beach; I.B.M., Raleigh; Burlington Northern, Dallas; Clark, Heller, & Herter, P.C., Houston; Citicorp, San Antonio; City Savings and Loan, San Antonio; Criterion Corporation, Houston; North Carolina Senator Terry Sandford, Raleigh; McAllen International Museum, McAllen; Southwest Research, San Antonio; Commerce Savings, San Antonio; Houston Industries, Houston; Texas A&M University, Galveston; Price Waterhouse, Dallas; President's Office, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; Tony Roma's River Center, San Antonio; Bill Clements, Governor of Texas, Austin; Southwestern Bell, Fort Worth; Terrell Public Library, Terrell.

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS, JURIED EXHIBITIONS, MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS The Civic Music Association, Galveston, Texas, One-man Exhibition 1966, 1967 Rice University, Houston, Texas 1967 The Galveston Art League, One-man Exhibition 1969 Patina Gallery, Galveston, Texas 1967, 1968, One-man Exhibition 1972, 1973, 1974 The Galveston Galleria 1969 Temple B'Nai Israel Juried Art Exhibition, Galveston, Texas 1966 - 1st Place Award, 1967 - Honorable Mention The Dulin National Print and Drawing Competition, Knoxville, Tennessee 1967

The Art League of Houston: Other Places, Other Faces, Other Things 1967 - Honorable Mention Dimension: Houston, Juried Exhibitions 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972 Periphery: Waterfront 1968 May Membership Exhibition 1968, 1969 October Invitational Exhibition 1968 Series IV of IV Competitions: →I of IV (Sculpture) 1968 →II of IV (Watercolor) 1969 - Honorable Mention and Popular Vote Award Finalist →Competition of Series IV of IV 1969 - 3rd Place Unusual Things Competition 1969 - Honorable Mention and Popular Vote Award Drawing Conclusions 1985 The Galveston Art League Juried Competitions 1966, 1967 - Honorable Mention, 1968 - Honorable Mention, 1972, 1973 - Honorable Mention, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1988 The Texas City Art League Competitions: 1967 - 2nd Place (Painting), 2nd Place (Sculpture), 3rd Place (Sculpture) 1968 - 1st Place (Painting), 1st Place (Watercolor), 1969 - 2nd Place (Painting), 3rd Place (Painting), 3rd Place (Watercolor), Honorable Mention (Graphics) The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts National Juried Exhibition 1967 The Houston Art Educators Biannual Exhibition 1967, 1969 The City of Baytown National Art Competition 1967, 1968, 1969 - 1st Place, 1970, 1971, 1973 - Honorable Mention, 1974 - Honorable Mention, 1967 - 1st Place, 1987 - Top Purchase Award Texas Art, Houston Country Club Invitational Exhibition 1968 The First Unitarian Church Print and Drawing Competition, Houston, Texas 1968, 1969, 1970 The Jewish Community Center Juried Art Awards, Houston, Texas 1969, 1972, - Honorable Mention, 1973 - Honorable Mention, 1974 The First United Methodist Church Juried Competition, Alexandria, Louisiana 1969, 1972 - Honorable Mention The Louisiana National Juried Competition, Hodges Gardens, Louisiana 1969 - Honorable Mention, 1970 - 2nd Place, 1971 The Assistance League of Houston Exhibition, Houston, Texas 1969, 1970, 1971 The Gamma Phi Beta Invitational Exhibition, Houston, Texas 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 The Graphic Artist, Houston, Texas, One-man Exhibition 1970 Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas 1970 The Jewish Community Center, Houston, Texas, Faculty Exhibition 1970 The College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas 1970 The Fairmount Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1971