Unlike most modern painters of the West, Joyce Lee's roots spring directly out of the very essence of Western landscape and livestock culture. Growing up on remote ranches in Wyoming, she witnessed her cowboy father's seasonal battles with the elements, as well as his small pleasures taken in pride of rugged tasks well done. Joyce Lee herself experienced a childhood of exhilarating moments of horse riding and ranch work interspersed with long periods of quiet solitude -- moments that nurtured the artist in her.

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