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This painting depicts the same young man in a long-sleeved white shirt, and the same background
of crumbling urban decay. Here the figure has turned and is walking away from the viewer - while
in
Slum Lad
he is facing the viewer. It epitomizes Lee-Smith’s vision of a modern, existential landscape
inhabited by dis-illusioned young figures. Lee-Smith returned often to show his work and teach in
Detroit after moving to NewYork in 1958. Lee-Smith was represented in NewYork by the Petite
Gallery and then Janet Nessler Gallery through the 1960s. King-Hammond p. 57.
[40,000/60,000]