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An example of work by James Edwin McBurney
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A painter, illustrator and muralist, James McBurney was born in Lore
City, Ohio. He studied in New York at the Pratt Institute and
with John Twachtmann and Charles Davis, and in Philadelphia at the
Drexel Institute and the Brandywine School of Art with Howard
Pyle. He then went to Paris where he enrolled in the Academies
Colarossi and Castelucho.
From
1901 to 1913, he was in Los
Angeles where he gave private lessons and taught at a local
highschool. One of his students was California artist Mable
Alvarez. He also conducted art classes at Laguna Beach, which
along with other artists' summer classes helped develop the art colony
at Laguna Beach. He was also a muralist in the 1915 Pan American
Exposition in San Francisco.
In 1919, he
left California to teach briefly at the A.E.F. University in Beaune,
France, and then went to Chicago, where he had an opportunity to paint
murals. Working there until his death on March 2, 1955, he
founded an art school, was Art Director for the Chicago Art District
and for the City Parks and Recreation, and was active in the WPA Mural
projects that have been rediscovered and are being restored in recent
years in Chicago.
In Chicago, his murals are in the Palmer
Park Field House, Woodlawn National Bank, Parkside School, Wentworth
School, Scott School, and Tilden Technical School. Murals are also at
the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and the State Agricultural
Expo Building in Dubuque, Iowa.
Affiliations included the
California Art Club and the Cliff Dwellers in Chicago. He
exhibited with the Pan-Pacific Exposition in 1915 in San Francisco.
Source:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
Treadway Toomey Galleries
Irvine Museum, Impressions of California: Early Currents in Art 1850-1930
Information and book references, courtesy Jesse A Gayer
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James McBurney is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
The California Art Club
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
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