Good Morning Obots!
I have to say, I LOVE my Annie Lee “White Tie Only” figurine set. Oh yeah! Today’s artist: Annie Lee
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”.
And yes, she’s created one in honor of The First Family!
h/t to GN for pointing this one out to me! Love the poem that inspired it!
The Lion’s Den
I’m not afraid.
No one dragged me in.
I walked into
this lion’s den.
They all growl and roar.
Say I have no mane,
No fur, nor fangs,
And a foreign name
From a faraway place.
Yet they have to agree
I’m the boldest Leo
In this menagerie.
by D. Joy Smith