I wanted the drawings to be lovely and informative, to give pleasure and affirmation. “In 1973 I set out to do drawings of women’s genitals for use in sex education groups. The book was reprinted by Last Gasp in 1989, adding French, German, and Spanish translations. She found it in a Portland bookstore and was amused at imagining her grandfather, who used very proper language, seeing his type on such an explicit book.įirst published in 1975 by lesbian activist and artist Tee Corinne, the Cunt Coloring Book was created as a resource for sex education. In a February 2023 interview with James Edmondson for Ohno Radio, Carolyn Minott, granddaughter of Davidadesigner, Louis Minott, identified this cover as her favorite use of the typeface. These are the most common typefaces in the database, but there are many more.Haas Inserat-Grotesk / Neue Aurora VIII (49).Cited as one of the fifty most influential lesbians and gay men of the 1980s (Lambda Book Report) and awarded the Women’s Caucus for Art President’s Award (1997), she is noted as “one of the most visible and accessible lesbian artists in the world” in Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia.

Corinne (MFA: Pratt, 1968) has been publishing lesbian/queer/in-your-face art since 1975 including The Cunt Coloring Book, “Yantras of Womanlove”, “The Sinister Wisdom Poster”, “Femalia”, and “Self-Portrait Dialog with Time and Circumstance.” Her work is both damned and praised for the romantic, aesthetic, sensual pleasure it affords. Dreams are central to her work and her life. Stylistically she is most akin to the Surrealism of Man Ray. She is excited by the tension created between in-your-face imagery, formal beauty, and compositional balance.

It is a visual celebration of ordinary bodies-chunky, fat, skinny, disabled, odd, aging-expressed through lyrical and heroic formal concerns.

The queerness of her work lies in its content: pussy licking, finger fucking, and cunty imagery along with lesbian authors, contextualized self-portraits, and sexual symbolism. Born in the radicalism of the 1960’s and 1970’s, intellectually framed by political activism, humanistic psychology, and personal exploration/revelation, the art of Tee Corinne maps the leading progressive movements of our times.

Cunt Coloring Book by Tee A. Corinne