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Painter and decorative artist, Annie Lee is well known for her realistic and humorous portrayals of contemporary and historical African American family life. Identify they did. Since her first gallery show in , during which her paintings sold out in the first four hours of the show, Lee has enjoyed resounding success. Lee was born in Gadsden, Alabama in and raised in Chicago.

She grew up in a family that expected girls and boys alike to learn survival skills, so her mother, a seamstress, taught her and her older brother Tony to cook, wash, clean, and sew. While listening to the popular radio shows of the time, like The Lone Ranger and The Shadow, Annie also learned to knit, crochet, and draw. At age ten, she took up painting.

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Immediately she demonstrated talent, winning recognition at art contests and several free semesters of lessons at the Art Institute of Chicago. On Sundays Lee and her family often went to church. They then enjoyed eggnog ice cream at the corner drug store and sometimes a movie matinee. While a high school student, the energetic Lee both honed her artistic skills and urged on the Wendell Phillips High School football team as part of the cheerleading squad.

Although she was offered a four-year scholarship to study art at Northwestern University, Lee opted to marry and raise a family. Busy with family life, Lee did not resume painting until she was 40 years old. By then she had lost two husbands to cancer and raised a daughter from her first marriage and a son from her second. While working as the chief clerk at Northwestern Railroad, in the department that ensures the safety of the train tracks, Lee decided to study art at night.