1938born Tennessee, USA...moves with family to New Jersey - first exposure to great Eastern collections

1957 journeys west to Montana...meets artist Ace
Powell...begins painting seriously

1959 first solo exhibition of Blackfeet Indian studies at U.
of Saskatchewan followed by another at C.M.
Russell Gallery, Helena, Montana

1960 leaves Montana for Taos, New Mexico...rents old
Walter Ufer Studio...studies "Taos School" and
paints southwestern Indians...meets painter Bettina
Steinke who offers advise and support...

1961 meets and exhibits with artist Leon Gaspard at Jane
Hyatt's Village Gallery...two man show with W.E.
Sharrer, Desert Southwest Gallery, Palm Desert,
CA...working trips throughout the American
southwest, old Mexico and the West Indies broaden
the scope of his work...first paintings exhibited in
New York City, Kennedy Galleries...numerous group
exhibitions.

1966 establishes studio in Denver, CO...begins intensive
life-drawing regimen...undertakes extensive
American Indian costume studies at Denver Art
Museum's Chapell House.

1967 solo show, Blair Galleries, Santa Fe,
NM...commences extended outdoor studies with
Robert Lougheed... visits Spain to study Sorolla and
the Spanish Masters...first trip to Paris

1971 solo show, Owen Gallery, Denver, CO...elected to
membership Cowboy Artists of America...awarded
gold and silver medals for drawing at annual
exhibition

1972 solo show, National Cowboy Hall of Fame and
Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma...elected to
membership, Salmagundi Club, New York City

1973 selected as permanent member to National
Academy of Western Art

1974 awarded John F. and Anna Lee Stacey
Fellowship...one-man show at Colorado Governor's
Mansion by invitation of Colorado Council on the Arts
and Humanities...piece selected for annual
Governor's Award for Outstanding Achievement in
the Arts/Colorado...resigns memberships - Cowboy
Artists of America and National Academy of Western
Art.

1975 solo show, Boise Museum of Art...visits Soviet Union
to paint and study Russian Realist School

1976 solo exhibition, Birger Sandzen Memorial Gallery
...solo exhibition Whitney Gallery of Western Art...first
Morroco trip to visit and paint the Berber Tribes of
North Africa.

1978 working trip to the Far Pacific and the Orient
sketching in Fiji Islands, Bali and Nepal

1979 solo exhibition, Charles and Emma Frye Museum,
Seattle, WA...another at Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe,
NM ...extended painting safaris to Kenya - paints
Maasai and Samburu peoples...locates studio in
Santa Fe, NM

1982 featured in "Contemporary Realists", Coe Kerr
Gallery, New York City..".Ned Jacob / The Kenyan
Portfolio" opens Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
City...elected to membership Chelsea Arts Club,
London

1983 Kenyan Portfolia traveling exhibition, Wichita Art
Museum and El Paso Museum of Art...relocates
studio in Denver

1984 further work in east Africa... 25th anniversary
exhibition James Fisher Gallery, Denver, CO...takes
studio in London...extensive field work English
Equestrian venues

1986returns to USA...summers in Maine, winters at Palm
Beach Polo Club...ongoing outdoor work in equestrian
studies

1988 renovates old meeting house, Skowhegan, ME into
summer retreat house and studio... active teaching
and lecture schedule...shows pictures with J.N.
Bartfield Galleries, New York City

1990 featured "The New West" Contemporary Art from
collection Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY

1991 continuing field work "at the horses", Saratoga, NY,
Glyndon, MD and Wellington, FL

1996 solo exhibition: "A Horseman's Diary", Sun Valley
Center for the Arts and Humanties

1997/
1998 solo exhibition: "Sol Y Sombra", Museum of the
Southwest, Midland, TX

2004 solo exhibition: "Horses, Mostly", Green Spring Valley
Upper Club, Glyndon, MD... ongoing lectures,
seminars and painting in the field.........

M. Soo Hoo Lee - photo