Lee Smith (8)

[from University of Southern Mississippi website]
Lee Smith Albion was born in Rochester, New York and trained at the Grand Central School of Art in New York City. She graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe College and then received a Master's Degree from Columbia University. After college, she continued her education at the Art Students League in New York City for four years and the Art Center in Los Angeles. She married an attorney in 1965 and relocated to Miami. The birth of their son occurred the following year.

Ms. Albion's commercial art career enabled her to produce her work in many newspapers and magazines in the U.S. such as The New Yorker, Saturday Review of Literature, New York Times Book Review, and many others. For a number of years she exclusively illustrated the weekly Chicago Tribune Book Review.

Publishing under the name Lee Smith, Ms. Albion illustrated a number of children's books, including Inside You and Me: A Child's Introduction to the Human Body (Harper, 1961), A Kite for Carlos (John Day, 1966), and Tomato Boy (Harper, 1967). Perhaps most noteworthy, Albion contributed illustrations to Mariana de Prieto's books about Latin-American children and Spanish folktales. Ms. Albion also contributed illustrations to children's periodicals such as Jack and Jill and Scholastic.