Artist

Paul Burlin

born New York City 1886-died New York City 1969
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Paul Burlin, 1946, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0001333
Also known as
  • H. Paul Burlin
Born
New York, New York, United States
Died
New York, New York, United States
Active in
  • Paris, France
Biography

Paul Burlin studied at New York’s National Academy of Design and in England, and was one of the youngest artists to exhibit at the 1913 Armory Show. He spent several years in New Mexico, where he created paintings inspired by the desert landscape and the Native American communities. In the early 1920s, critics were hostile to Burlin’s semiabstract work and the artist left for France, declaring America to be suffering from a “palsy of the spirit” (Sandler, Paul Burlin, 1962). He returned to the States more than a decade later and lived the rest of his life in New York City, spending many summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Works by this artist (4 items)

Keith Lewis, Sebastian (Imaginary Self Portrait) (brooch), 1999, sterling silver and 18k gold, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Susan Beech Collection, 2024.50.53, Photo by John Wilson White
Sebastian (Imaginary Self Portrait) (brooch)
Date1999
sterling silver and 18k gold
Not on view
Keith Lewis, Spit Polish (brooch), 1998, sterling silver, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Susan Beech Collection, 2024.50.54, Photo by John Wilson White
Spit Polish (brooch)
Date1998
sterling silver
Not on view
Keith Lewis, Rapture, 1997, sterling silver and acrylic paint, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Lloyd E. Herman, founding director and director emeritus of the Renwick Gallery (1971-1986), 2007.44.2
Rapture
Date1997
sterling silver and acrylic paint
Not on view
Keith Lewis, Cuculla's Brooch (brooch), 2001, copper, enamel, fine silver, 18k gold plate, and pearls, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Susan Beech Collection, 2024.50.55, Photo by Robert Diamante
Cuculla’s Brooch (brooch)
Date2001
copper, enamel, fine silver, 18k gold plate, and pearls
Not on view