Lot 28
Margaret Burroughs
(African American; 1917 - 2010)
DuSable Students
Linocut
Edition of 4.
Painter, sculptor, educator, illustrator, and writer, Margaret Burroughs was born in Louisiana in 1917. Her family moved to the south side of Chicago in 1922. Here, she studied at the Chicago Normal School and received both her bachelor's and master's degrees in art education at the Art Institute of Chicago. From 1940 to 1968 she was a teacher in the Chicago public schools and a professor of humanities at Kennedy-King College in Chicago from 1969-1979.
At age 22, she founded the South Side Community Art Center, a community organization that continues to serve as a gallery and workshop studio for artists and students. In the early 1950's, Burroughs started the Lake Meadows Art Fair where African Americans could showcase and sell their art. Burroughs also lived in Mexico for a time, where she studied printmaking and mural painting with the Taller Editorial de Grafica Popular (People's Graphic Workshop) under Leopoldo Mendez, a prominent printmaker of the Diego Rivera circle. When she returned, she and her husband Charles founded the DuSable Museum of African American History in their living room. It remained there for nearly a decade until it moved to its own building in Chicago's Washington Park.
Throughout her career, Burroughs worked in many mediums, showing special facility in watercolors and linocut printmaking. For many years, she worked with linoleum block prints to create images evocative of African American culture. She is also an accomplished poet and author of children's books. . In 1975 she received the President's Humanitarian Award, and in 1977 was distinguished as one of Chicago's Most Influential Women by the Chicago Defender. February 1, 1986 was proclaimed "Dr. Margaret Burroughs Day" in Chicago by late Mayor Harold Washington. Burroughs passed away on November 21, 2010.
Burroughs work has been exhibited extensively, including at Illinois State University; Winston Salem Teacher's College; Atlanta University, 1942, 1943, 1945; American Exposition, Chicago, 1940; Xavier University, 1963; Howard University, 1961; Hull House, Chicago, 1955; Mexico City, 1955; San Francisco Civic Museum, 1949; Illinois State Fair, 1949; Market Place Gallery, NY, 1950; Kenosha Museum, 1953; South Side Community Art Center, 1941, 1945; McMillen Galleries, NY, 1941.
Her work can be found in the collections of Howard University, Alabama State Normal School, Atlanta University, DuSable Museum of African American History, Johnson Publishing Company, and the Oakland Museum.
16" x 17.75"
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