About the artist:

Lee Hoffman (1942-2014) was born July 13 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Privately tutored in art history, music appreciation, literature, history and religion until the age of 13, while also attending academic and art schools. Visited weekly with tutors at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology, the Philadelphia Art Museum, The Lessing Rosenwald Collection, and other private and public collections in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Wilmington, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh and, beginning in 1958, The Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania. Lee's works can be seen at: Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) Smithsonian Museum of American Art (Washington, DC) Hwo Tong Ching Collection (Taipei, Taiwan) Michael Weill Collection (Paris, France) Swedish National Collection (Oland, Sweden) Notre Dame de Grace (Normandy, France) The Resnick Collection (Beverly Hills, CA) Irrgang Collection (Essen, Germany) Hsu Sho Lan (Hong Kong, PRC; Taipei, Taiwan) Tuttleman Collection (Philadelphia, PA)