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The works of Lee Lester, Colorado Master Artist, are found throughout North America, Europe, South Africa, and the Orient. Lester’s oils, pastels, watercolors, pewter, and bronze pieces form the basis of many collections around the world.

Lee Lester grew up roaming the pristine prairies of Southeastern Colorado where the abundant wildlife, the silence, and the vast vistas provided him the opportunity and time to carefully observe the fauna and flora that became the finely executed subjects of his future oils, watercolors, and bronzes.

He was born with a passion for accurate and vivid portrayal of the animals he loves. Lee began his artistic career sketching the wildlife around him when he was a young fellow on the Colorado prairie. Later the Rocky Mountain School of Art in Denver helped polish and develop his natural artistic skills.

Over decades Lee studied many classical and modern artists, drawing something from each, but he attributes his main inspiration to Carl Rungius, one of America's finest wildlife artists. Lester feels that he owes much of his sense of composition to the legendary Rungius.

Lee's artistic studies were enhanced in the fires and forges of his own Oklahoma foundry. Surrounded by white-hot heat and flying embers, midst fire and flame, Lester mastered the melding of waxen sculpture and molten metal that must combine in an almost mystical way to tear art from the very heart of fire in the lost wax method.

Almost four decades of hard work, limitless exposure in hundreds of exhibitions and one-man shows across the nation, along with ten thousand starry nights on the rivers, in the forests, and on the plains of the American continent, in the mountains of Canada, and on the expansive veldts of Africa have resulted in a variety of awards, print recognition, and a well earned reputation as Colorado's Master Artist. Media

Lee Lester is equally at home with a sketch pad or a bronze furnace, but his preferred media are oils, pastels, watercolor, bronze, and pewter. From time to time, Lee also works in leather, braided hair, and, occasionally, natural fabrics such as hemp. Awards and Commissions

Lester was selected as Master of the Western Bronze of the Year in 2001 at a Taos, New Mexico event sponsored by HMS/Fields Galleries.