Paintings, portraits, prints and stories by Kristin Witbeck Lee, a Seneca (Onödowá’ga) artist in Lancaster, PA

The Boy Who Overcame All Magic with Laughter

24×36 oil on canvas. Framed for display.

In the Seneca story collected by Arthur C. Parker, a boy named Gajihsondis grows up under a spell he cannot see. A demon of enchantment has scattered the people and bewitched the world; every wish is blocked and misery sits over everything. His grandfather keeps him hidden and warns him never to go near the spring, where a terrible creature waits.

When the boy finally walks the path, he meets the guardians one by one—a giant frog, a duck, a beaver, then a blue lizard that springs from the water and bites off his legs. Each time the magic rises against him, Gajihsondis does the one thing no one expected: he laughs. The laughter weakens the creatures until their power fails.

This was my son Fox in the stream in Amherst we used to go to—here, he is the boy, still innocent and playful, about to laugh and about to face the challenges of life, the old magic, in the form of the first evil being he meets, the frog, coiled in the dark behind him.

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ON HOLD. Oil on linen, 9 × 12 in, framed (gold bamboo frame), 2026. A knitted elephant, a blue-and-white vase and fading ranunculus. To inquire, email kristin@splashingwaters.com

Seneca Bird, oil and inks on canvas, 48x60". I'm thinking about the consciousness of a beadworker as she experiences the cosmic symbols and beings that inspire Indigenous art and the Haudenosaunee Good Mind. Seneca and Mohawk beaded purses and whimsies featuring birds and animals inspired this painting.

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Boys headed out to fish at the beloved north point of Long Beach Island, N.J. 24×30” Original painted in oils on linen. Available through the LBI Foundation (Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences) in NJ: call 609-494-1241 for more information. Not available for online purchase.

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Sold. Casein on board.

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60"x72" oil on canvas. Part of the Black in Back series. A tiger considers its likeness in a planter beside spreading summer blooms set in a Chinese vase.

On view at the Lancaster Art Vault through Nov 28.

Status: On view at ORENDA, Lancaster Art Vault, through Nov 28

Djodi'kwado, Seneca Horned Serpent: 48x60" inks and oil paint on canvas. I am exploring the nature of the transformations of evil in Haudenosaunee understandings. The horned serpent turns into a human figure to lure human beings into chaos and annihilation. I put one of our original medicines, sacred tobacco, at the bottom in front of him, as meditative collaborations with nature can offer much in response to the boundless mischief…

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Watercolor on paper, 24 x 18 in, 2025. Original still life by Kristin Witbeck Lee, a Seneca (Onödowá'ga) artist in Lancaster, PA. A red patterned cloth rises like a mountain against a blue sky, with two lovebirds, an orange, grapes, a conch shell and a fern. Signed original, one of a kind.

Watercolor mounted on board with wax varnish, 16 x 20 in, 2026. Original plein air painting by Kristin Witbeck Lee, a Seneca (Onödowá'ga) artist in Lancaster, PA. The flowering trees in front of Franklin & Marshall College in spring. Signed original, one of a kind.

Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 in, 2024. Original plein air painting by Kristin Witbeck Lee, a Seneca (Onödowá'ga) artist in Lancaster, PA. Sunlit grass, cool blue shadows on an old barn and a wind-bent tree. Exhibited in Between Land and Light at Lancaster Art Vault, 2025. Signed original, one of a kind.

Gouache and egg tempera on paper mounted on board. Image size 14 x 20 in. Painted from life, 2026.

Casein on cradled board, 8x10", ready to hang. A Seneca dancer at the festival. Shipping quoted by size and destination; free local pickup in Lancaster, PA.

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From the Black in Back floral series. 24×36” oil painting, flowers and lambs

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A storm front coming in over Race Ave, over the brave little garages in the alley in back, seen from the balcony. Oil on canvas, 36 × 36 in.

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Gouache on resin-infused carton paper, 9 x 12 in. Painted plein air in Tulum, Mexico. Exhibited in the Philadelphia Watercolor Society Members' Exhibition, 2026.

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Everything that we put into categories and think about, the sketchbooks and the old documents, the bits of greenery that were growing until you picked them and put them in a category. On top of it all lies the Book of Occult Science, waiting for you to open it. Oil on linen panel 16×20”

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