Mary Lee Tate

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Mary Lee Tate
Cincinnati Art Academy,
University of Chicago[1]
Occupation(s)Visual artist, teacher
Known forPainting

Mary Lee Tate (1893–1939), was an American visual artist and teacher.

Black schools
in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Early life and education

Mary Lee Tate was born on September 16, 1893, in Maysville, Kentucky into an African American family, her parents were Anna (née Ramey) and Harry Tate.[1][4][5] Some sources have her date of birth as 1890.[1] Tate graduated from Walnut Hills High School.[6]

She attended the

Cincinnati Art Academy (now Art Academy of Cincinnati), and at the University of Chicago.[8] The entire family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio by 1920.[1]

Career

After graduation in 1911, Tate worked as a public school art teacher at the Fredrick Douglass School (formerly the Douglas School for Negro Children) in Cincinnati.

physical assault.[10] In the 1930s, Tate taught art classes at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Junior High School (also known as the Harriet Beecher Stowe School, or the Stowe School) in Cincinnati.[1]

Tate exhibited her artwork at the

Harmon Foundation, between 1928 and 1931; and with the Smithsonian Institution, in 1930.[11][12] Her notable works include Summer; Twilight; A Mountain Trail; In the Canyon; and Morning Mist.[11]

Death and legacy

She died in Cincinnati on July 15, 1939, in a car accident.

second degree manslaughter, and by May 1940, the driver was on probation.[13][14]

She has work that is part of the Thomas J. Watson Library, the main research library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her profile was included in the books Negro Artists: an Illustrated Review of their Achievements, by the Harmon Foundation (1991 reprint edition); and Afro-American Artists. A Bio-bibliographical Directory (1973), authored and edited by Theresa Dickson Cederholm.[1][15]

See also

References

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    University of Kentucky Libraries
    . May 30, 2023. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  2. Kent State University Press
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  4. Harmon Foundation
    at the Art Center. 1931. p. 46.
  5. FamilySearch.org. Genealogical Society of Utah. July 18, 1939.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link
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  6. ^ "The Cincinnatian [1911]". Cincinnati and Hamilton Public Library. 1911. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
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  8. ISBN 978-0-932087-55-3 – via Internet Archive
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  11. ^
    ISBN 9780890730072 – via Internet Archive
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  15. ^ "Tate, Mary Lee. (b. KY; active Cincinnati, OH, 1931)". African American Visual Artists Database (AAVAD). Archived from the original on March 6, 2021.
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