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Shanna Clayton and Ms. Annie Lee Sass 'n Class figurines are created from the canvas artwork of African American artist Annie Lee, one of the most popular African-American artists in American history. Annie Has been called the "Norman Rockwell of African-American art" because her paintings depicts everyday life in the the African-American culture in an emotion-provoking and often amusing way.

Her most well known painting is called Blue Monday, the only self-portrait she has ever painted. Everyone can relate to the painting showing her weariness in dragging herself out of bed early one Monday morning to begin a new work week.

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WHY NO FACES????

All characters in Annie's paintings have one common trait; faces which has no features. Why does Annie paint in this manner? Here are Annie's reasons:

  • Annie Lee prefers to bring her paintings to life through the movement and body language of the characters. Annie does not want faces to interfere with the story she is painting through the body language of her characters.
  • By painting without faces, Annie allows her customers to project themselves or people that they know into the painting. Although Blue Monday is Annie's only self portrait, Annie didn't paint her face on the painting because she knows everybody can relate to having a Blue Monday, and wants her customers to be able to picture themselves in the painting.
  • When Annie started painting commercially she wanted to be unique and different from other artists. Painting without faces has certainly become one of Annie's distinct trademarks.

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