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Correspondence : Received
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18 cm of textual records
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Born in Kansas in 1928, Virgil Burnett was an author, illustrator, and instructor whose work has been widely published in North America and Europe. 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 correspondence received by Virgil Burnett from friends and family. Includes ephemeral items found in the correspondence such as clippings, articles, poems, etc. Note that correspondence has been left in original order. Correspondents include:
- [?], Al;
- [?], Bill;
- [?], Chad;
- [?], Chris;
- [?], Ford;
- [?], Josephine;
- [?], Kim;
- [?], Marcella;
- [?], Martin;
- [?], Melina;
- [?], Peggy;
- [d’Almeida?], George;
- [Lindsay], Marion;
- [Switzer], Dave;
- AIDS Committee of London;
- Boegehold, Alan;
- Cruz, Rienzi;
- Culhane, John and Hind;
- Devrient, Michel;
- Ducornet, Guy;
- Ducornet, Rikki;
- Edmunds, Helen;
- Erb, Deb;
- Erenberg, Ellen;
- Gallery Stratford;
- Gentilli, Jeremy;
- Goldman, Barbara;
- Hanewich, K.Y.;
- Harbringer Gallery;
- Haverford College;
- Heller, Grace;
- Hine, Daryl;
- Horner, Judith and Hammond;
- Liidemann, Ryan;
- Littlewood, Jill;
- Magowan, Robin;
- Manchester, Barbara;
- Mavor, Susan;
- McGann, Jerome;
- McInnery Burnett, Maud;
- Morey, Arthur;
- Morgan, Robert;
- Morgan, Thomas;
- Mulhallen, Karen;
- National Gallery of Canada Foundation;
- Nordley Beglo, Jo;
- Otter, Sandra;
- Pippin Burnett, Anne;
- Plaskett, Joseph;
- Rago, Juliet;
- Roth, Martha;
- Salvation Army;
- Shute, Laurence;
- Stefanescu, Isabella;
- Tahon, Jean-Luc;
- United Way;
- Urquhart, Jane;
- Wilbur, Richard;
- Yamashige, Lloyd.
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- English
- French