

Artist Annie Frances Lee was born on March 3, 1935 in Gadsden, Alabama. Raised by a single parent, she grew up in Chicago, Illinois and attended Wendell Phillips High School. Lee began painting at an early age, winning her first art competition at the age of ten. She was offered a four year scholarship to Northwestern University after high school, but married instead and raised a family.
It was not until age forty that Lee decided to pursue a career as an artist. She enrolled in Loop Junior College and completed her undergraduate work at Mundelein College in Chicago. After eight years of night classes while working at Northwestern Railroad as a clerk in the engineering department, Lee earned her M.A. degree in interdisciplinary arts education from Loyola University.
Lee's railroad job inspired one of her most popular paintings, Blue Monday, which depicts a woman struggling to pull herself out of bed on a Monday morning. Her trademarks are the animated emotion of the personalities in the artwork and the faces which are painted without features. At age fifty, Lee had her first gallery show. She allowed prints to be made of four of her original paintings. Using her unique designs, Lee also developed figurines, high fashion dolls, decorative housewares, and kitchen tiles.
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Lithograph
Image Size: 30"w x 16.5"h
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Tennis image Image size: 20.25"h x 12"w
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The exciting new 2012 Art of Annie Lee calendar features new works from Annie Lee. Annie has been the top selling African-American artist for over the past fifteen years. She says her secret to success is her faith in God and her willingness to serve o
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