Helen Hortense Lee Deffebach

While Lee Deffebach (1928-2005) is usually identified as a Utah artist, her ties to the former mining town, and now artist’s colony of Tuscarora, Nevada, some fifty miles northwest of Elko, were strong. Deffebach became attracted to the muted colors and patina of the desert in and around Tuscarora in the mid-fifties. She set up her studio in a weather-beaten and out of kilter house and spent her summers there drawing and painting. For a time, she became intrigued with objects found around town and on the desert floor—tin cans, coffee cups, pottery shards, the detritus of human presence—and created modest-sized assemblages of them.

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