20 Facts About Tee Corinne

Linda Tee Corinne Athelston Cutchin was born in St Petersburg, Florida, to Thomas Barnes Cutchin and Marjorie Isabelle Meares.

In 1945, when Tee Corinne was two years old, her parents got divorced.

Tee Corinne spent three months recovering in a nursing home and nineteen months with her grandparents in Yankeetown, Florida, where she grew to love country living.

Tee Corinne was not permitted to resume normal activity until age eight.

Tee Corinne introduced Corinne to the basic principles and techniques for making visual art.

Tee Corinne spent her first year of college studying art at Newcomb College in New Orleans, LA, where she studied painting with Ida Kohlmeyer.

Tee Corinne was, in her words, sliding into suicidal depression.

Tee Corinne stopped making art when she and Kamen moved to San Francisco in 1972.

Tee Corinne publicly came out as a lesbian in 1975 with her then-partner, Honey Lee Cottrell.

Tee Corinne began exhibiting and publishing art and writing in the mid-1960s.

Tee Corinne was a co-facilitator of the Feminist Photography Ovulars and a co-founder of The Blatant Image, A Magazine of Feminist Photography.

Tee Corinne was the author of one novel, three collections of short stories, four books of poetry and numerous artists books and small edition publications.

Tee Corinne was an author, writing many fiction novels with lesbian themes.

Tee Corinne wrote about art for a variety of publications and, from 1987, was the art books columnist for Feminist Bookstore News.

In 1989, Tee Corinne received a Lambda Literary Award in the lesbian anthology category for her editing of Intricate Passions.

Tee Corinne lived in the many women's communities springing up in the area.

Tee Corinne died in Sunny Valley, Oregon, on August 27,2006, after a struggle with liver cancer.

Tee Corinne donated her papers to the University of Oregon Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives, where they are now available for research.

In 2014, Tee Corinne was included prominently in a 45-year retrospective on LGBT photography on the website of news station KQED.

In 2015 the Golden Crown Literary Society awarded the first Tee Corinne Outstanding Cover Design award to Ann McMan for her work on the book Everything.