Lee Adler

Lee Adler (1926–2003)

Active from the mid-1960s until the 1980s, he produced over 300 paintings and 75 editions of prints found in collections of a number of museums, including the Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The largest holdings of his work can be found at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas.

Early life He was born Leo Adler in New York City to Isidor and Anna Adler, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, in 1926. There is, however, confusion about his birth year; during his artistic career, Adler consistently listed 1934 as his year of birth. According to his son, he did so in order to make himself seem like a younger artist as he was beginning his career in art. In 1983, Adler left Brooklyn and moved to Lime Kiln Farm, Climax, New York. He died in Climax in 2003 at the age of 77.