“Margaret McKay Tee was born in 1882 and raised in Pennsylvania until her family moved to Colorado. In 1902, following her education at Colorado College, she trained at New York’s Cooper Union and Columbia Teacher’s College, where she met Frank Alvah Parsons.

Tee subsequently worked for Parsons as a student instructor when he joined the faculty of the New York School of Fine and Applied Art (later, Parsons The New School for Design). After moving back to Colorado, Tee carried on a correspondence with Parsons for many years.”

Before her marriage to John Tee in 1913, she apprenticed with Jean Griest, a New York decorator.

The Tees returned to Colorado and eventually settled at Brinton Terrace, an artists’ colony in Denver. During World War II, Margaret and her husband worked at the Ogden Air Service Command base.

As part of her professional career, she was a consulting designer for such notable companies as Bigelow Carpet Persian Rug Company, Cyrus Boutwell, and Emden & Wormser.

She served as art director and teacher at the Graland Country Day school for fifteen years. She also taught fine art and design at several other schools in the Denver area, including the Denver Academy of Art, Colorado Women’s College, and Colorado University, as well as Denver’s Vocational High School.”

She died in 1955.

Submitted by a person wishing to remain anonymous, whose sources are internet websites.