Russell Lee
Plates contributed
The 2 plates attributed to Russell Lee in the 1955 MoMA Master Checklist (Exhibition #569).
| ID | Country | Section | Year | View |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| photo-0080 | USA | Family and children | — | Clervaux |
| photo-0170 | USA | Work | — | Clervaux |
Notes
Two plates in the catalog (count verified by strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv 2026-05-09): photo-0080 (USA), photo-0170 (USA). Both credited ‘American’ in the MoMA Master Checklist. Born 1903; died 1986 per src-icp-russell-lee-archive (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09; the right-hand panel rendering ‘1903 - 1986’ / ‘American’ / ‘Artist’ is clean — but the page’s biography paragraph is rendered as broken markup that the browser swallows; the underlying text in the page source identifies him as ‘the FSA’s longest employed and most productive photographer’ working until the agency’s closure in 1942). The July 21, 1903 birth, August 28, 1986 death, Ottawa, Illinois birthplace, Austin, Texas place-of-death, and the middle name ‘Werner’ carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-russell-lee-pointer (in repo, fetched 2026-05-09). FSA team co-membership with Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and Walker Evans verbatim from src-wikipedia-russell-lee-pointer (‘He joined a team assembled under Roy Stryker, along with Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, and Walker Evans’). The September 1986 NYT obituary URL was attempted via curl 2026-05-09 and returned HTTP 403; no Wayback fetch in this round. The MoMA collection page was attempted at https://www.moma.org/artists/search?q=russell-lee and returned 403; no MoMA corroboration in this round. Neither ICP nor Wikipedia mentions FoM by name on Lee’s page (verified by string-search 2026-05-09).
External biography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/russell-lee
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