Marion Elizabeth Tylee (25 May 1900 – 27 February 1981)Births Deaths & Marriages Online was a

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artist.

Private life

Born at Makuri near

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, New Zealand, she was the daughter of Walter Edward Charles Tylee and his wife Katherine Anne née Perry. Her aunt, Alice Lethbridge Avery (née Perry) was also a New Zealand artist. After

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she settled in

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, New Zealand.

Career

Tylee studied in New Zealand with D. K. Richmond at Miss Barber's Academy in Wellington. In 1923 she attended the Canterbury College School of Art, and she won a

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award for a watercolour.Art Students Awards
page 4, ''The Evening Post'', 20 September 1923 She later trained with T. A. McCormack. From 1926 to 1929 she attended the

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in London and in 1937 at

Académie Colarossi The Académie Colarossi (1870–1930) was an art school in Paris founded in 1870 by the Italian model and sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It was originally located on the Île de la Cité, and it moved in 1879 to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the ...

in Paris. She worked primarily in

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, and

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. Works by Tylee are held at the

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including: ''Crimson plums'' (1953); ''Village in the hills'' (c. 1930); ''Mount Tarawera, New Zealand'' (1935); and ''Rooftops'' (c. 1928). 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).

Exhibitions

Tylee exhibited with the: * Auckland Society of Arts *

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* Rutland Group *

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(1934)

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