(b Suva, Fiji, 8 Nov 1908; d Auckland, April 1993). New Zealand painter and photographer. He studied at the Elam School of Art, Auckland (1924–6). From 1930 to 1938 he worked in London, attending classes at the Central School of Art and Design. On his return to New Zealand he lived in various country towns in the Auckland and Northland districts, where he painted the scenes of provincial New Zealand on which his reputation rests (e.g. Creamstand, ink and watercolour, c. 1950; Wellington, Victoria U.). He interpreted the country towns and people of northern New Zealand in a romantic-realist style akin to the example of John Piper and Paul Nash. Lee-Johnson’s talents lay in seizing on the typical and giving his imagery a symbolic force, as in his Assaulted Landscape series (1946–50). Most of his work is in watercolour; he was also active as a photographer.