Wellington Chung-Hsi Lee was born in 1918 to U.S. citizens in Kwantung, China. He moved to the New York in 1935. A few years later, he made his first photographs, with a small camera in Central Park. He graduated in 1943 from what is now the New York School of Art and Design with a degree in photography. During World War II, he was a military photographer. Following the war, he worked for the Jons Fashion Studio in New York for a few years, and in 1950 established his own portrait business. Situated in Chinatown, the Wellington Lee Studio operated for over twenty-five years.
A black and white landscape photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on a foggy morning.
Additional Artworks
From Colorado Photographic Arts Center
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Meg Griffiths
Miel y Sandia, 2012
archival inkjet print
20 x 20 in
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Thomas Carr
Miner's Cabin, Lemhi Valley, ID 2002, 2002
Gelatin Silver Print
20 x 16 in (paper)
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Hal Gould
Ming-Dog Tree - Bristle Cone Pine; Mount Goliath, Colorado, 1988
Archival Gelatin Silver Print
17.25 x 14 in
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John Arden
Modern Life Lines, 1977
Gelatin Silver Print
18 x 15.5 in
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Howard Freeman Crocker
Molly Brown House Detail, 1971, 1971
Gelatin Silver Print
8 x 10 in (paper)
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Imogen Cunningham
Minor White, Photographer, 1963
Gelatin Silver Print
14 x 11 in (paper)
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Ansel Adams
Mirror Lake, 1937
Gelatin Silver Print
16 x 20 in (paper)
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Shawn Bush
Mojave National Preserve
Archival Inkjet Print
11 x 13.5 in
About the artist
Wellington Lee
1918-2001