![]() ![]() Still working her railroad job, Lee completed eight years of night classes to earn a master’s degree in interdisciplinary arts education from Loyola University. Although she began painting at an early age and won an art competition at age 10, after high school, Lee turned down a full scholarship from Northwestern University to get married and raise a family.įast forward two decades as the 40 year-old decided to return to school and pursue a career as an artist. ![]() ![]() But as Chief Clerk in the Engineering Department of Northwestern Railroad, she had little choice, so her feelings manifested in the popular painting, Blue Monday, portraying a weary woman struggling to pull herself out of bed.īorn in 1935 in Gadsden, Alabama, Lee was raised by a single parent and grew up in Chicago. On a cold winter morning in Illinois in the 1970s, Annie Frances Lee did not want to go to work. ![]()
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