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ID: 500128979
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500128979

 

Record Type: Person
Burford, Byron Leslie (American painter and printmaker, 1920-2011)

Note: Byron Burford was born July 12, 1920, in Jackson, Mississippi. He studied with Grant Wood at the University of Iowa earning a BFA in 1942. He returned to the University after serving in the U.S. Air Force in World War II and in 1947 received his MFA. Upon graduating he was appointed to the faculty in the Art Department and taught painting until 1986 when he was named professor emeritus. Burford did additional teaching at the University of Minnesota, California College of Arts and Crafts, and the Joslyn Museum. His paintings and prints can be found in the collections of museums and institutions such as the Walker Art Center, Guggenheim, High Museum of Art, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Subject matter of Burford's works includes circuses, military, industry and sports.

Names:
Burford, Byron Leslie (preferred,V,index,American English-P,NA,U)
Byron Leslie Burford (V,display,American English,NA,U)
Burford, Byron Leslie, Jr. (V)
Burford, Byron (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
oil painter
printmaker
professor

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Jackson (Hinds county, Mississippi, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Iowa City (Johnson county, Iowa, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
student of ....  Wood, Grant  
..................  (American painter and printmaker, 1891-1942) [500031056]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Burford, Byron Leslie (I,U)

Biographies:
(American painter and printmaker, 1920-2011) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American painter, 1920-) ..... [FAC-LutherColl]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Burford, Byron ........ [VP]
..............................  Hevesi, Byron Burford, New York Times (2011) obit.
Burford, Byron Leslie ........ [FAC-LutherColl Preferred, VP Preferred]
...........................................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 2 April 2008
...........................................  Who's Who in American Art, 24th ed. (2001-2002)
Burford, Byron Leslie, Jr. ........ [VP]
....................................................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006) accessed 2 April 2008
....................................................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 2 April 2008
....................................................  Hevesi, Byron Burford, New York Times (2011)
Byron Leslie Burford ........ [FAC-LutherColl, VP]
.........................................  Who's Who in American Art, 24th ed. (2001-2002)

Subject: ........ [FAC-LutherColl, Gallery Systems, VP]
....................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon. Internationale Künstlerdatenbank (1993-2006) accessed 2 April 2008
....................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 2 April 2008
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n83310624
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n83310624
....................  Who's Who in American Art, 24th ed. (2001-2002)
 
Note:
English .......... [FAC-LutherColl, VP]
.......... Who's Who in American Art, 24th ed. (2001-2002)
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