biography of James Edwin MCBURNEY (1868-1955)

Birth place: Lore City, OH

Death place: Chicago, IL

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA; Chicago, IL

Profession: Painter, illustrator, teacher

Studied: PIASch; & with Charles H. Davis, John Twachtman, Howard Pyle; A.W. Dow; Académie Colarossi, Acad. Castelucho, Paris

Exhibited: P.P. Expo, San Diego, 1915 (med); Chicago Gal. Assn.

Member: Calif. AC; All-Ill. SFA; South Side AA; Cliff Dwellers.

Work: Parkside Sch., Wentworth Sch., Tilden Tech. Sch., Scott Sch., all in Chicago; murals, Univ. Mich. (Ann Arbor), Century of Progress Expo., Palmer Park Field House (Chicago); panels, Woodlawn Nat. Bank (Chicago), Fed. Bank & Trust Co., Dubuque, Iowa, State Agricultural Expo Bldg., Los Angeles, Pasco (Wash.) Bank; Cheney, Wash.; Southern Calif. Counties' Commission, San Diego.

Comments: Position: art dir., Chicago Park District. Teaching: Los Angeles schools, 1909-13; A.E.F. University, Beaune, France (1919). Lectures: History of American Art.

Sources: WW53; WW47. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 364.