Lee Lufkin Kaula

Lee Lufkin Kaula (1865–1957) was an American Impressionist painter known for her portraits.

Biography Kaula née Lufkin was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, on December 23, 1865. She was taught by Charles Melville Dewey and then traveled to France to study at the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Her teachers in France included Edmond Aman-Jean, Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois, and Ernest Gustave Girardot. Lufkin was a member of the Woman's Art Club of New York.

Kaula's work was included in the Pan-American Exposition of 1901, and the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915. Her work was includes in several exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Art Club, the National Academy of Design, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Some of the artist's papers are in the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

In 2018 the D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts held a retrospective of William and Lee Kaula's work entitled Two Lives, One Passion: American Impressionist Paintings and Sketches by William Jurian Kaula and Lee Lufkin Kaula. Kaula's portrait of her husband, William, is in the collection of the Boston Athenæum.