Marion Elizabeth Tylee (25 May 1900 – 27 February 1981)Births Deaths & Marriages Online was a New Zealand artist.
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. Her aunt, Alice Lethbridge Avery (née Perry) was also a New Zealand artist. After the Second World War she settled in Palmerston North, 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 New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts 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 Slade School of Fine Art in LondonSocial News page 15, The New Zealand Herald, 15 August 1929 and in 1937 at Académie Colarossi in Paris.
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); 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 Canterbury Society of Arts New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts Rutland Group The Group (1934)
References
Further reading Artist files for Marion Tylee are held at: E. H. McCormick Research Library, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Also see: Concise Dictionary of New Zealand Artists McGahey, Kate (2000) Gilt Edge