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Artist Annie
Frances Lee was a Chief Clerk in the Engineering
Department of a railroad. Today, Annie Lee is an
internationally acclaimed artist and gallery owner
known to art collectors the world over as "Annie Lee."
As an adult, one Monday morning at five o'clock as
Annie Lee tried to get it together, she came up with
"Blue Monday." She wondered if anybody else felt as
bad as she did having to go out on that cold winter
morning to catch the bus to work. Annie Lee is a
humorist and a realist and her style has been referred
to as "Black Americana."
Annie Lee will tell you her secret to success is her
faith in God and a willingness to help others. God did
this through me. You have to have faith. I never
thought I would leave the railroad, but it was the
best thing I ever did. It was hard to leave the
security, but you have to take a leap of faith."
Her works
have been featured in "ER", Bill Cosby's spin-off show
"A Different World" and Eddie Murphy's movies "Coming
to America" and "Boomerang".
WHY NO FACES????
All characters in
Annie's paintings have one common trait; faces which has
no features. Why does Annie paint in this manner? Here
are Annie's reasons:
- Annie Lee
prefers to bring her paintings to life through the
movement and body language of the characters. Annie
does not want faces to interfere with the story she
is painting through the body language of her
characters.
- By painting
without faces, Annie allows her customers to project
themselves or people that they know into the
painting. Although Blue Monday is Annie's only self
portrait, Annie didn't paint her face on the
painting because she knows everybody can relate to
having a Blue Monday, and wants her customers to be
able to picture themselves in the painting.
- When Annie
started painting commercially she wanted to be
unique and different from other artists. Painting
without faces has certainly become one of Annie's
distinct trademarks.
Authorized Brands:
Just Our Originals (JOI) products
are
Annie
Lee's
exclusive brand. They come in the
white
box.
(Sass n' Class) are in the red
box.
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