Marion Tylee

Marion Elizabeth Tylee
Born Marion Elizabeth Tylee
(1900-05-25)25 May 1900
Pahiatua, New Zealand
Died 27 February 1981(1981-02-27) (aged 80)
Education Slade School of Fine Art, Académie Colarossi
Known for Painting – oils, watercolour, and linocuts

Marion Elizabeth Tylee (25 May 1900 – 27 February 1981)[1] was a New Zealand artist.[2]

Private life

Born at Makuri near Pahiatua, New Zealand, she was the daughter of Walter Edward Charles Tylee and his wife Katherine Anne née Perry.[1] After the Second World War she settled in Palmerston North, New Zealand.[3]

Career

Tylee studied in New Zealand with D. K. Richmond and T. A. McCormack. In 1923, she won a New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts award for a watercolour.[4] From 1926 to 1929 she attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London[5] and in 1937 at Académie Colarossi in Paris.[3]

She worked primarily in linocuts, watercolour, and oils. Works by Tylee are held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa including: Crimson plums (1953);[6] Village in the hills (c. 1930);[7] Mount Tarawera, New Zealand (1935);[8] and Rooftops (c. 1928).[9]

After moving to Palmerston North she played a major role in the development of the Manawatu Art Gallery (now part of the Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History).[10]

Exhibitions

Tylee exhibited with the:

References

  1. 1 2 Births Deaths & Marriages Online
  2. ↑ "Tylee, Marion". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Tylee, Marion 1900–1981". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  4. ↑ Art Students Awards page 4, The Evening Post, 20 September 1923
  5. ↑ Social News page 15, The New Zealand Herald, 15 August 1929
  6. ↑ "Crimson Plums – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Village in the hills – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Mount Tarawera, New Zealand – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "Rooftops – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  10. ↑ "Tylee, Marion, 1900–1981 : Papers". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  11. ↑ "Artists exhibited with Auckland Society of Arts". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  12. ↑ "Artists exhibited with Canterbury Society of Arts". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  13. ↑ "Artists exhibited with Rutland Group". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  14. ↑ "The Group 1934". christchurchartgallery.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.

Further reading

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