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Lee Chesney

Artist

WA-00026571

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None documented

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Authority Records (1)

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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American Prints of the 20th Century

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954

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Young American Printmakers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1953–1954

Field Verification (1 fields)

0 cross-verified · 1 single-source

BiographyMoMA· 93%

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/1096
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (6)

Promise

1967 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 29 15/16 × 21 11/16" (76.1 × 55.1 cm); sheet: 29 15/16 × 22 1/16" (76.1 × 56.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Tribulation

1965 · Etching, aquatint, sugar lift etching on white wove paper

Image/plate: 71.3 × 55.7 cm (28 1/8 × 21 15/16 in.); Sheet: 90 × 62 cm (35 7/16 × 24 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pierced and Beset

1951 · Etching, engraving, and aquatint

plate: 15 13/16 x 23 5/8" (40.2 x 60cm); sheet: 20 3/16 x 27 1/16" (51.2 x 68.8cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Specters' Holiday

1946 · color intaglio

Cleveland Museum of Art

Dark, Dark Land

1940 · Brush and black, gray and brown wash, on cream Japanese paper

98.3 × 61.8 cm (38 3/4 × 24 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Wave #1

1940 · Intaglio on cream wove paper

Image: 42.3 × 60 cm (16 11/16 × 23 5/8 in.); Sheet: 51.3 × 69 cm (20 1/4 × 27 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Artwork sources (3)

6 published of 8 catalogued · 7 with image

Art Institute Chicago
3 published3 img
MoMA
2 publishedof 4 catalogued4 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

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1 entries · 1 sources

Specters' Holiday
1946 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Collections3

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago

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In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition American Prints of the 20th Century

New York · 1954

Group Exhibition Young American Printmakers

New York · 1953