Rupert Lee 1887-1959

Rupert Lee was born in Bombay, India. Studied at the Royal College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art where became friendly with Paul Nash. Lee made a notable drawing of Nash. From early in the 1920s Leww was associated with the Friday Club and London Group, of which for a decade from the mid 1920's he was president. Lee was chairman of the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936. As well as acting as art critic for several publications, such as The New Statesman and the The New Age, Lee lectured at Westminster School of Art.