Lee Shih-chiao

Lee Shih-chiao was a Taiwanese . Most of his paintings were , but he also created some cubist works in his mid-life.

Biography

Lee Shih-chiao was born in Shinshō district, Taihoku Prefecture of the Japanese-ruled Taiwan. In 1923, he entered Taipei Normal School , which divided into two normal colleges later, and began to receive the formal art education.

Lee married Zhou Lai-fu in 1928. And he was accepted by the in 1931. Lee graduated from the Tokyo School in 1935 and stayed in Japan until 1944.

In 1963, Lee began to serve as an associate professor to teach arts in National Taiwan Normal University. He left the Normal University in 1974, and became a professor of the National Taiwan Institute of Arts and the Chinese Culture University.

Lee retired from his educator jobs and emigrated to Seattle to live with his daughter in 1982. He died in Syracuse, New York, .