She spent the last 25 years of her life living in the Oregon woods, but she was also an urbane and urban-focused creative.Ĭorinne wrote of her move to Oregon where she lived in various women’s land communities before settling in her own place outside Medford, “Slowly, in Oregon, I reconnected with the deep levels of creativity that run in me and began producing work which pleased me.” Known best for her erotic lesbian photographs and her photographic portraits, Corrine was also an artist, writer, poet, essayist, sex educator and art historian. Printmaking was one way I could integrate art with politics. I was a southerner active in the civil rights movement in the south. Fine art has problems with accessibility. According to “Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia,” “Tee Corinne is one of the most visible and accessible lesbian artists in the world.”Ĭorinne said in an interview with photographer Barbara Kyne in 2000 about why she chose photography: “I wanted to do something where content and politics could be satisfied.

Obscure? Certainly not within artistic circles nor within the queer art world where she began doing groundbreaking work in the 1960s. Over her decades as a lesbian photographer and artist, Tee Corinne said “I’m one of the most obscure famous artists.”įamous? Yes. Corinne papers, Coll 263, University of Oregon Libraries Special Collections and University Archives.)

Labiaflowers by Tee A. Corinne