Her trademarks are the animated emotion of the personalities in the artwork and the faces which are painted without features. 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. degree in interdisciplinary arts education from Loyola University. After eight years of night classes while working at Northwestern Railroad as a clerk in the engineering department, Lee earned her M.A. 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. Lee was offered a four year scholarship to attend Northwestern University after high school, but married instead and raised a family. Lee began painting at an early age, winning her first art competition at the age of ten. 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.
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