Blue Monday Homage by Courtney Jolliff (inspired by Annie Lee)

This is an original mixed-media painting on a square panel or heavy cardstock, created by artist Courtney Jolliff. The piece is an expressive homage to Annie Lee’s iconic 'Blue Monday' artwork, featuring a central female figure in a white nightgown seated on the edge of a bed, characterized by the signature faceless style popularized by Lee. The composition is dominated by a vibrant, textured palette of cobalt and cerulean blues, applied with visible, energetic brushstrokes and heavy impasto techniques. The figure wears a simplified yellow crown, a recurring motif in neo-expressionist contemporary art. In the lower left quadrant, the name 'Annie Lee' is hand-lettered alongside a possible date or series number signature. The substrate shows irregular, raw edges, suggesting a contemporary, folk-art, or 'outsider art' aesthetic. The condition appears to be original with intentional raw edges; the paint application is thick and stable. This work represents a stylistic fusion of Jolliff's modern gestural abstraction with the cultural narrative of African American genre painting, specifically produced to commemorate Black History Month.