biography of Harry Paul BURLIN (1886-1969)

Birth place: NYC

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC; Europe, c.1920-31; Woodstock, NY, 1940s (summers)

Profession: Landscape, mural and figure painter, educator, lithographer

Studied: NAD; England.

Exhibited: Armory Show, 1913; PAFA, 1915 (as Harry Berlin), 1929-68 (as Harry Paul Burlin; 1964, Henry J. Scheidt Award); WMAA, 1926-65 (1962, retrospective); AIC, 1932-47, 1960 (Watson Blair Award); S.Indp.A.; Corcoran Gal, 1935-63; Carnegie Inst., 1936-46; WFNY 1939; MoMA, 1945; Pepsi-Cola, 1945 (prize); solo: Downtown Gal.; Stable Gal., 1954; CPLH, 1954; FA Soc. San Diego, 1954; Univ. So. California, 1954; Louisiana State Univ., 1954; Washington Univ., St. Louis, 1954; Union College, Schenectady, NY, 1954; Poindexter Gal., NY, 1958, 1959; Univ. Mississippi, 1958; State Teachers College, New Paltz, NY, 1958; Art: USA, 1959 (prize) Holland-Goldowsky Gal., Chicago, 1960; Borgenicht Gal., NY, 1963, 1964, 1965; Ford Foundation (retrospective), 1960; Boston Univ., 1964 (retrospective); NIAL, 1965 (Marjorie Peabody Waite Award).

Member: Am. Soc. PS. & G.; Salon des Independents, Salon D'Automne, both in Paris; Woodstock AA; SC; Intl. Soc. AL

Work: MoMA; WMAA; BM; Newark MA; Encyclopedia Britannica; Washington Univ.; Univ. Minnesota; IBM; Wichita MA; Alabama Polytechnic Inst.; Lamont Mus., Exeter, NH; Nebraska Univ. Mus.; LACMA; Woodstock AA.

Comments: Widely known as Paul Burlin, his full name is Harry Paul Burlin, but at the beginning of career his name sometimes appeared as Harry Berlin (see WW15; Falk, PAFA, for 1915; and Milton Brown, Armory Show, who cross-refs the last name as Berlin and Burlin). Burlin traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe. He was one of the youngest artists to appear in the Armory Show and was an early member of the Santa Fe School of Western Painting, moving there in 1913 to study Indian and Hispanic artists of the region. Returned to NY in 1920, and was active in Provincetown, MA, during the early 1930s, late 1950s, and late 1960s. Teaching: Colorado Springs FA Center, 1936; Univ. Wyoming; John Hay Whitney Fnd.; Washington Univ., St. Louis, 1949-54; visiting prof., Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., 1954-55.

Sources: WW66 (as Paul Burlin); WW47 (as Harry Paul Burlin); WW15 (as Harry Berlin); Brown, The Story of the Armory Show, 247, 251; P & H Samuels, 76; Provincetown Painters, 180; Woodstock's Art Heritage, 64-65; Eldredge, et al., Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, 193; Falk, Exhibition Record Series; addit. info. courtesy Woodstock AA