Lee’s railroad job inspired one of her most popular paintings, Blue Monday, which depicts a woman struggling to pull herself out of bed on a Monday morning.
While working as the chief clerk at Northwestern Railroad, Annie studied art at night for eight years, eventually earning a master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Art Education from Loyola University. She enrolled in Loop Junior College and completed her undergraduate to work at Mundelein College in Chicago. Work and Legacyīetween the age of 10, when she showed artistic aptitude, and 40 when she began her career as an artist, she had lost two husbands to cancer, raised a daughter from her first marriage and a son from her second, and lost a son in a tragic accident in 1986. She received her Master of Education from Loyola University. She declined the scholarship to get married and raise a family but later studied art at Mundelein College and the American Academy of Art. Her artistic accomplishments led her to receive a scholarship to attend Northwestern University. Annie attended Wendell Phillips High School on Chicago's South Side. She began painting as a child and won her first competition at the age of 10 but did not start painting professionally until she was 40. Lee was born in Gadsden, Alabama but grew up in Chicago, Illinois.
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