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May 1-October 30, 2007 (Authorship)
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6 photographs : col. ; 16 x 11 cm and 11 x 16 cm
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Virgil Burnett was an American author, illustrator, and instructor of fine arts. Born in Kansas in 1928, he received his undergraduate education at Columbia University in New York, where he studied with Edward Melcarth, a Social Realist painter. In 1950, he was drafted, trained as a combat engineer, and sent to Europe where he served for two years in a propaganda company as an artist-illustrator. After his military service, he attended graduate school at Berkeley, taking a master's degree in Art History. When a Fulbright scholarship took Burnett to Paris in 1956, he encountered other expat artists including David Hill, whom he remained close friends with until Hill's death in 1977. Burnett also met Maurice Darantiere, a French publisher who made him aware of the expressive possibilities of the book arts. By 1960, he was working primarily as an illustrator. In the 1970s, he began as a professor in the Fine Arts department at the University of Waterloo. Burnett died in 2012
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File consists of 63 pieces of correspondence received by Virgil Burnett. Includes letters from long-term correspondents Robin Magowan, Jerome McGann, Arthur Morey, John Culhane, and others. File also includes poems sent by Magowan and McGann. Some letters have been annotated by Burnett with the name of the sender.
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Photographs printed from computer on inkjet paper.
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Donated by Virgil Burnett in 2009.