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     Carol Lee Thompson is a Classical Realist trained in the methods of the Old Masters. She is a full-time professional artist residing in her native Maryland but travels extensively to paint and further her education as an artist.

     Carol Lee is featured in galleries throughout the country.  Her work is part of many corporate and private collections including the Butler Institute of Art and the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland. Her art hangs in Baltimore's City Hall, The Fort McHenry National Shrine, the U.S. State Department, and the Star Pass Resort in Arizona.

     Carol Lee's exhibits include the Gilcrease and Albuquerque Museums' "Miniature" Shows, Tucson Museum's "Women Artists of the West Show," the C.M. Russell Museum Show and Auction and John Pence Gallery's Still Life Shows. She has won many awards including Regional OPA Award of Excellence, Best Sporting Art at the International Museum of the Horse, the Cheyenne Frontier Days Show, the Salmagundi Club in New York, Fredrix Spirit of America Awards, many International Miniature Shows, and the Best Painting by a Maryland Artist in the Easton, Maryland, Plein Air Event.

     Carol is a member of the prestigious Oil Painters of America, the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, American Women Artists, and the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society. She is published in "Best of America Oil Artists II," "Fresh Flowers: The Best of Flower Painting," and "Art of the American West." She has been featured in many magazine articles.

     She is a graduate of Towson State University, holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and is a graduate of the Schuler School of Fine Arts, where she still teaches part-time. It is important to note that her traditional training allows her to prepare her surfaces with lead and glue, grind her own pigments, and paint with black oil and Flemish or Maroger medium (which she prepares).

     Carol Lee paints a wide range of subject matter including landscape, figurative, equine, still life, and Western themes. She is recognized in the West for her Native American subjects, while the rolling hunt and reservoir country of her home in Phoenix, Maryland, provides lovely landscape locations. In addition to her full-time art career, she teaches and gives workshops.

American Art Collector Magazine, July 2010