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

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

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:

• Auckland Society of Arts[11]
• Canterbury Society of Arts[12]
• New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts
• Rutland Group[13]
• The Group (1934)[14]

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

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