In the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and the other radical postwar movements, he was a little-known presence in American art. To his friend and one-time mentor, Max Kahn, he wrote in 1964, "It will always remain impossible for me to believe anyone will look me up after the bell tolls. It is perhaps best for me to do my task faithfully." In the view of one art critic, "Gatch [ultimately] found his own voice and equalled the best of Milton Avery, an artist with whom he has a kinship." After his death, he was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York. Collections Gatch's work is in the collection of: the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art the Phillips Collection, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. References Sources Breeskin, Adelyn. Lee Gatch. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1971. Lee Gatch: Recent Paintings. Berne: Stampfli & Cie, 1963. Lee Gatch, Recent Paintings (Berne : Stämpfli & Cie., 1963) OCLC 1977645 Lee Gatch: Recent Paintings, 1954-1958. New York: World House Galleries, 1958. Lee Gatch : Recent Paintings, 1954-1958 (New York : World House Galleries, 1958) OCLC 45616694 Loughery, John. "The Lyrical Abstractions of Lee Gatch." Arts Magazine (April 1988), pp. 78–80. Newark Museum. Lee Gatch, 1902-1968 (Washington, Published for the National Collection of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971) OCLC 226692 Rathbone, Perry Townsend. Lee Gatch. Washington, D.C.: American Federation of Arts, 1960. Lee Gatch (New York, 1960) OCLC 1213277 Washington University in St. Louis. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. St. Louis, Mo. External links MarylandArtSource.com Askart.com 1902 births 1968 deaths Maryland Institute College of Art alumni 20th-century American painters American male painters Painters from Maryland Modern painters Artists from Baltimore Federal Art Project artists Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) 20th-century American male artists Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters