Series: Scribner

1977, Lee had an exhibition of large outdoor sculpture at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Lee was teaching studio art at Reed at the time, and he decided to demonstrate to his students the evolution of ideas. The result was a series of drawings featuring phases of the idea process from initial concept to final versions that resulted in finished sculpture. Unlike Lee’s very technical working drawings, these drawings are finalized views of an evolving idea.

While Lee often sketched casual versions of sculpture he might want to build, this series represents one of the few times the early drafts were as complex and richly detailed as the final sculpture.

Scribner is named after a remote lake near his grandfather’s ranch in central Idaho.