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 (2 items)

Paul Burlin, A-1961, 1961, oil and collage on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc., 1968.52.1
A‑1961
Date1961
oil and collage on canvas
On view
Paul Burlin, Western Landscape with a Fire, n.d., color monotype on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Nion McEvoy, 2014.39.1
Western Landscape with a Fire
Daten.d.
color monotype on paper
Not on view