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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, including Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, the Carolinas, and across the Mid-Atlantic. Her work is part of many corporate and private collections including the Butler Institute of Art and the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD.

     Carol is a member of the prestigious American Women Artists, the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society, American Academy of Women Artists, Oil Painters of America, and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association. She is published in Fresh Flowers: The Best of Flower Painting and Art of the American West. She was a "Preview Artist" in the Art of the West Magazine. She is also in the 1998 American Artist Magazine article "Baltimore Realists."

     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 Art, where she still teaches part-time. It is important to note that her classical 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, still life, equine, portraiture, 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.