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Group of pencil and charcoal drawings, studies of nudes. All signed with the artist estate stamp. A fine American muralist and oil painter, Lee Woodward Zeigler studied at the Maryland Institute of Art. By the turn of the century, Lee Woodward Zeigler had established a large reputation for his paintings and murals in both the United States and Great Britain. He was a full member of the Hudson Highland Art Association, the Medieval Academy of America, the American Federation of Arts and Britain's prestigious Royal Society of Artists. Lee Woodward Zeigler also created a number of fine drawings and illustrations for the Magazine of Art, beginning in 1909. During the first decades of the twentieth century Lee Woodward Zeigler was much in demand for both his portraits and his allegorical figure studies. In the former category he painted many military portraits, such as the portrait of Washington which is now in the collection of West Point. The allegorical studies, however, were often commissioned as public murals and reveal a more delicate, less formal characteristic of the artist's oeuvre. This original drawing was probably a preparatory study for one of these works. Lee Woodward Zeigler's art from this period usually contains the graceful Art Nouveau lines and tones one sees in this beautiful example. Largest measures: 19”H x 12”W