Matador and Señora paintings
Keith Lee
These paintings have been hanging in my grandparents parlor for as long as I've been alive. I think they bought 'em in the late 1960's. For some reason, my grandmother was going through a bullfighter phase when she was picking out decorations for the house, because she has a ceramic bull statue too.
I never knew much about the artist, and it's not been easy to find information about him, but here's what I was able to find. His name is Milton Lee, but he signed his work as Keith Lee. He was born on October 12th, 1927 in Chickasha, Oklahoma. He died less than four years ago on December 6th, 2003 in Granada Hills, California. At some point, he had a studio on Forbes Avenue in Granada Hills.
Update: I've found other paintings of his on eBay that I really like. This pirate ship panting is my favorite so far. It reminds me of the end of The Goonies.
