藝術家Elbridge Ayer BURBANK (1858-1949) 生平簡歷

出生地: Harvard, IL

死亡地点: San Fran., CA

地址: Napa, CA

职业: Painter

教育: Chicago Art Academy, 1874-78, with Emil Carlsen, Felix Regamey, and J.F. Gookins; in Munich with Paul Nauen, Friedrich Fehr, and Toby Rosenthal, 1889

展出: Chicago SA, 1893 (prize); NAD, 1895-1900; BAC; Soc. Western Artists; PAFA, 1894, 1896-99, 1903; AIC; Cotton States Expo, Atlanta,1895 (med., prize); Trans-Miss. Expo., Omaha; Tenn. Centennial Int'l Expo., Nashville; Pan.-Am. Exp., Buffalo, 1901; Louisiana Purchase Expo., St. Louis, 1904; Kanst Gal., Los Angeles, 1907; Marshall Field"s, Chicago, 1910

会员: Am. Artists Cl., Munich, 1889; Chicago SA, 1893; Cosmopolitan Cl., Chicago, 1895

工作: Field Mus.; Newberry Library, Chicago; Smithsonian Inst.; Butler Inst. Am. Art

评论: By 1880, he opened a studio in St. Paul, MN. His first big job was with Northwest Illustrated Monthly, where he painted scenery (in 1885 and in 1886) along the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad, meant to encourage homesteaders to buy land. In 1887, he studied briefly in Munich, but returned in 1889 for two years, then opened a portrait studio in London for a year. In 1892, he and his wife returned to Chicago where he had a studio in the Athenaeum Bldg. and specialized in painting small serio-comic figures and genre scenes of African-Americans, particularly of children. In 1897, Edward Ayer, his uncle, museum president, and founder of the Ayer Indian Collection at the Newberry Library in Chicago, commissioned Native American portraits from him. Thereafter, Burbank became obsessed with painting the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, and many other tribes. He traveled constantly in the West, living among his sitters, who named him Many Brushes." Between 1897-1907, he made portraits of more than 125 types of North American Indians, and painted the portraits of Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Naiche, American Horse, and many other notable chiefs. Unfortunately, Burbank was a manic-depressive, so after his wife"s second abortion, he deserted her, remarried, and apparently worked for the Hubbell Trading Post. His second marriage also ended in divorce, and in 1916 he suffered another nervous breakdown and was hospitalized for 17 years. Upon his release, he lived in San Francisco, painting area landscapes . . . but he was struck and killed by a cable car.

来源: WW27; Hughes, Artists in California, 80; P&H Samuels, 75; add'l info. courtesy Joel Dryer, History of Illinois Painters.

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