Over twenty years ago, Rosebee was named the country’s “Most Promising Marine Painter” by the Mystic Seaport Maritime Gallery. Living up to that title, Rosebee’s work is now in the permanent collections of many museums, including The Peabody Museum, The Springfield Museum of Fine Art, The Barnum Museum, The Heritage Plantation and The Custom House as well as in the White House. Her work has also been chosen by the United States Department of State to be in the official residence of the Ambassador to Algiers.

Raised by her grandfather, a whaler with a vivid imagination, and grandmother, an artist who expressed herself in amazing quilts, Rosebee spent a childhood immersed in and inspired by folklore and the amazing realities of her unique family. Her grandfather’s tales of ghost ships, buried treasures, mer-families and dolphins guiding wayward vessels to port are imbedded in her memory.

A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Rosebee spent 25 years traveling the country creating and consulting on textile design and creation. For 50 years, she has painted people and happenings — real and imagined — depicting the wonders of life among family and friends.