{"id":880,"date":"2020-06-05T11:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=880"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:29","slug":"joseph-lee-war-poet-and-artist-an-online-exhibition-on-art-uks-curations-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/joseph-lee-war-poet-and-artist-an-online-exhibition-on-art-uks-curations-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Lee &#8211; War Poet and Artist: An Online Exhibition on Art UK&#8217;s Curations platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wrap curation-desc\">\n<div class=\"desc\">Ranked alongside Owen, Brooke and Sassoon, Joseph Lee was in his day regarded as one of Scotland\u2019s finest First World War poets. Although his reputation has since been unfairly eclipsed, his poetry and war memoirs remain powerfully evocative. What makes Lee particularly remarkable is that he was also a highly skilled artist who illustrated his own books and, after the war, moved to London to study at the Slade.<\/div>\n<div class=\"desc\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/05\/arts2704d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-881 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/05\/arts2704d-1024x761.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/05\/arts2704d-1024x761.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/05\/arts2704d-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/05\/arts2704d-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/05\/arts2704d-1536x1142.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/05\/arts2704d.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>The University of Dundee holds over 250 of Lee\u2019s drawings and paintings as well as unique archive material including diaries and letters. An online exhibition on Art UK has been created by the University of Dundee Museum Curator Matthew Jarron to explore Lee\u2019s life and work through a selection of his artwork &#8211; which you can access by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/artuk.org\/discover\/curations\/joseph-lee-war-poet-and-artist\/view_as\/grid\/search\/curation:joseph-lee-war-poet-and-artist\/page\/1\">following this link!<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranked alongside Owen, Brooke and Sassoon, Joseph Lee was in his day regarded as one of Scotland\u2019s finest First World War poets. Although his reputation has since been unfairly eclipsed, his poetry and war memoirs remain powerfully evocative. What makes Lee particularly remarkable is that he was also a highly skilled artist who illustrated his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-literature","category-museums"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6526,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/6526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}