Lilian Burwell African American Artist Women's Modern Art History Washington DC

  

Lilian Thomas Burwell African American Artist Women's Art History Washington DC. Very rare monograph of Lilian Thomas Burwell an African American female artist from Washington DC (more biographical information below). Published in conjunction with an exhibit of the artist's work at the Hampton University Museum in Virginia. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Larger hardcover (about 8" x 10") with dust jacket, 1997, 76 pages.

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We will respond to you within 24 hours and do our best to help you out! Lilian Thomas Burwell (born 1927) is a Washington, DC sculptor and painter whose shaped paintings often blur the line between the two disciplines. Her artwork uses abstraction to create a personal response to the natural world. She was born in Washington, DC on June 7, 1927.

Born into a creative family, her father was a photographer and her mother was an artist and craftsperson, and both taught art. Her aunt, Hilda Wilkinson Brown, was a renowned painter.

She was educated at the prestigious High School of Music and Art in New York City and Dunbar High School in Washington, DC. She then went on to complete her studies at Pratt Institute in 1946 and earned a B.

From DC Teachers College and M. In 1975 from Catholic University. Lilian Thomas Burwell studied abstract expressionism with famed artist Benjamin Abramowitz in the mid 1960s and she worked in this genre until the early 1980s.

Following the death of her mother, her work moved into the sculptural with hand carved wood and "paintings as sculpture". She is a longtime member of the Washington, D. And African-American arts communities, and maintained close friendships with the painters Felrath Hines, Alma Thomas, and Sylvia Snowden. Burwell has exhibited in over 20 exhibits in the United States and abroad, including the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Community Museum, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1997, Hampton University Museum held a 30-year retrospective of her work and published From Painting to Painting as Sculpture: the Journey of Lilian Thomas Burwell. Her curatorial career spans 15 years and includes founding director of the Alma Thomas Memorial Gallery in Shaw for the D. Department of Education, curatorial director of the Sumner Museum and Archives, designer of arts curriculum for DCPS, art teacher at Pratt Institute NYC, head of visual arts department at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and adjunct art teacher as recently as 2012 at Anne Arundel Community College.

She curated the exhibition "The Art of a People: Finding a Way Out of No Way" at the Banneker-Douglass Museum in 2015. In addition, Burwell has 30 years of graphic design experience, including work as a publications and exhibits specialist for the U. Michael Butler Collection, Baton Rouge.

Solo / Two Person Shows. A Thirty-year Retrospective: From Painting to Painting as Sculpture: The Journey of Lilian Thomas Burwell. Arnold and Porter, Thurman Arnold Building. Contemporary Master: From Painting to Painting as Sculpture. The Skylight Gallery Art and Culture Center of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration.

Finding A Way Out of No Way. From Painting to Painting as Sculpture. Paint Branch Unitarian Universalist Atrium. Museum of Science and Industry Members Lounge Gallery. Our Lady of Perpetual Hope Church.

Tyler Gallery at Northern Virginia Community College. Rivers and Memories with E.

Museo Civico D'Arte Contemporanea, U. Black Artists in Washington, DC. Black Women Artists in the Academy. The Howard University Gallery of Art. Black Women Visual Artists in Washington DC. American University Museum at the Katzen Center Washington D. Environments of Spirit, Mind and Space: The World We Create. Lilian Thomas Burwell, Sam Gilliam, and Yvonne Pickering-Carter. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC; Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery at Pratt, Brooklyn, NY. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. National Gallery of Women in the Arts.

Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington D. Women of Color: Artists Books.

Franklin Furnace, NYC; Flossie Martin Gallery, Radford University; Eubie Blake Center and Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Artemesia Gallery, Chicago, ILL.