Fine Art Supplies
Midtown Manhattan's widest selection of fine art supplies
for the professional artist or the beginner
For over 50 years, Lee's has been supplying fine artists, both professionals and beginners with a full selection. This includes a wide choice of paints, canvases, papers, brushes, mediums, varnishes, primers, easels, palettes, drawing pens and pencils, markers, inks, charcoals, drawing pads, sculpting materials, clay, models, and other fine arts supplies.
With a knowledgeable and helpful staff, as well as a stock of technique books, Lee's can fill all your fine arts needs. Lee's Art Shop is conveniently located at 57th and Broadway.
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Paints
Lee's offers a wide variety of brands for fine arts oil paints, acrylic paints, alkyd paints, watercolor and gouache paints, and other specialty paints. Featured brands include Winsor Newton, Cotman, Pantone, Prismacolor, Mayline and Liquitex. Paint sets are also available in starter and portable sets.
- Oil paints
- Oilsticks
- Acrylic paints
- Alkyd paints
- Gouache paints
- Watercolor paints
- Tempera paints
- Paint pigments
- Enamel paints
- Ink (sumi-o/Chinese ink)
- Finger paints
Brushes
Whether you prefer natural bristles, synthetic, or some combination, Lee's carries all sizes and shapes of the leading brands of fine arts brushes for any paint medium: oil, acrylic, tempera, watercolor, primer, specialty sumi-o ink or Chinese ink, as well as a wide array of steel-crafted and plastic palette knives and other accessories and supplies. Featured brands include: Winsor Newton and Gamblin. Lee's also carries a variety of brush sets.
Hair brushes include Sable, Squirrel, Ox, Camel, Bristle, Mongoose, Monkey hair brushes as well as synthetics and synthetic blend brushes. Brush shapes include brights, flats, rounds, filberts. Palette knives & mixers are also available.
Primer, Mediums and Solvents
Whether you need primer by the gallon, or by the pint, Lee's supplies gesso in a variety of brands and quality. You'll also find a wide variety of fine arts mediums, solvents, and varnishes for both oil paints and acrylic paints, and linseed oils.
Canvas
Available by the yard, pre-stretched, or by the pad, Lee's selection offers flexibility in size and quality according to your needs in a range of weaves and weight, cotton or linen, primed or unprimed. Stretcher bars and cross-braces are available in 1" increments in standard and heavy-duty to customize your canvas size. Lee's also offers a selection of sizes in alternative painting surfaces including masonite boards, hard boards, and clay boards.
Paper 
Fine art paper by the pad or spiral-bound, soft-cover or hard-cover, smooth or with tooth, are available for watercolor, sketching, drawing, tracing, book-making and printmaking in a range of sizes for large projects or for portability. Lee's carries leading stock brands as well as fine Japanese note-books. Whether quantity, durability, quality, or style is your priority for your fine art paper supply, you'll find what you need.
Palettes
Lee's stocks a variety of fine art palettes, including wood, glass, metal, plastic, or disposable pads of palette paper for all paint types. Need a large palette surface? Lee's offers both large and portable palettes. Need to save your palette for re-use? Lee's supplies metal palettes with a cover to keep your paints fresh as well as both individual plastic lidded containers and clustered plastic lidded palette containers. You'll also find a wide choice in portability supplies including a variety of shapes, with or without thumbholes and with or without depressed cups.
Drawing Supplies and Sketch Pads
Lee's carries the finest brands of pens, colored pencils, charcoals, pastels, inks, markers, erasers, blending tools, stencils, straight edges, drawing pads, and sketchbooks in sets or individually.
Sculpting Materials
Clay, Tools, Fimo sculpting materials are also available.
Easels
No fine arts studio is complete without a reliable easel, and Lee's supplies a variety of easels, tabletop or floor-standing, on casters or rubber tipped, moderately priced beginner's easels, display easels, or top-of-the-line hand-crafted oaks, with or without artist trays to hold supplies, and easels that can hold paintings up to 120" in size.
Models
Fine art models in wood or durable plastic are available. Models are anatomically proportionate, and capable of displaying a full range of human motion and are available in a range of sizes.
Additional Supplies
You can also find all sorts of fine arts supplies such as hand glove creams, brush cleaners, fine arts soaps, and organizers that can ease the functionality of your arts studio, letting you free to concentrate on your creative time.