Marion_Tylee

Marion Tylee

Marion Tylee

New Zealand artist

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

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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 at Miss Barber's Academy in Wellington.[4] In 1923 she atteded the Canterbury College School of Art,[5] and she won a New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts award for a watercolour.[6] She later trained with T. A. McCormack.[7] From 1926 to 1929 she attended the Slade School of Fine Art in London[8] 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);[9] Village in the hills (c. 1930);[10] Mount Tarawera, New Zealand (1935);[11] and Rooftops (c. 1928).[12]

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).[13][14]

Exhibitions

Tylee exhibited with the:

References

  1. [1]
    Births Deaths & Marriages Online
  2. [2]
    "Tylee, Marion". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  3. [3]
    "Tylee, Marion 1900–1981". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  4. [4]
    Peter Vangioni (2023). Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era. Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery. ISBN 978-1-87-737577-4. Wikidata Q118224886.
  5. [5]
    Peter Vangioni (2023). Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era. Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery. ISBN 978-1-87-737577-4. Wikidata Q118224886.
  6. [6]
    Art Students Awards page 4, The Evening Post, 20 September 1923
  7. [7]
    Peter Vangioni (2023). Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era. Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery. ISBN 978-1-87-737577-4. Wikidata Q118224886.
  8. [8]
    Social News page 15, The New Zealand Herald, 15 August 1929
  9. [9]
    "Crimson Plums – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  10. [10]
    "Village in the hills – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
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    "Mount Tarawera, New Zealand – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  12. [12]
    "Rooftops – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  13. [13]
    "Tylee, Marion, 1900–1981 : Papers". National Library of New Zealand. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  14. [14]
    Peter Vangioni (2023). Ink on Paper: Aotearoa New Zealand Printmakers of the Modern Era. Christchurch: Christchurch Art Gallery. ISBN 978-1-87-737577-4. Wikidata Q118224886.
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    "Artists exhibited with Auckland Society of Arts". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
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    "Artists exhibited with Canterbury Society of Arts". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  17. [17]
    "Artists exhibited with Rutland Group". findnzartists.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  18. [18]
    "The Group 1934". christchurchartgallery.org.nz. Retrieved 28 September 2017.

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