Magnificent PAUL BURLIN Signed c. 1925 Oil - LISTED Start Price USD 7,500.00 Current Price USD 7,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, August 31, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 Location Los Angeles See more about 'Magnificent PAUL BURLIN Signed c. 1925 Oil - LISTED' Description     Magnificent PAUL BURLIN Signed c. 1925 Oil - LISTED       Click to View Image Album This is a magnificent original signed museum quality oil on canvas painting by internationally acclaimed artist PAUL BURLIN (American, 1886 -1969), circa 1925.   Born in New York City, Paul Burlin, a participant in the 1913 Armory Show, was a Social Realist for most of his career, influenced at first by the Ashcan School and later by Cubism. Then, at the age of 70, he turned to Abstract Expressionism. In the works following the conversion, Burlin, though a native New Yorker, painted in a manner that was somewhat European, and he tended to harass his paint with gestures that often look more considered than automatist. But, possibly affected by Minimalism, he began to thin his color and simplify his shapes, achieving images that were both lucid and expressive. Inspired by a 1913 visit to the Southwest, he became an early member of the Santa Fe school of western painting and did Indian portraits and landscapes including the Grand Canyon.  In the 1912 Armory Show exhibition, he was one of the youngest members in the exhibition and the only painter who had visited the Southwest. However, his abstract, expressionistic style was viewed suspiciously by other painters in the West. Burlin continued to visit the Southwest, and in 1917 married Natalie Curtis, a woman from New York who had studied in Europe and who subsequently lived in New Mexico and Arizona and devoted herself to preserving the culture, language and traditions of Native Americans.  She was especially focused on the songs and chants of the Hopi Indians.  Curtis and Burlin lived in Santa Fe, but in 1921, Curtis, age 46, was killed in Paris by an automobile when she and her husband were in Paris attending an International Congress on the History of Art. Burlin taught at the Art Students League summer school in Woodstock, New York after it was re-established, following World War II, in 1947.  He was a member of the American Congress of Artists and was active in the Provincetown Art Colony. He taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, the University of Wyoming, and Washington University in St. Louis. A fellow of the MacDowell Colony, in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Burlin was represented in an exhibition in 1997, "Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists," that traveled from the National Academy of Design, New York City, to the Wichita Art Museum, Kansas. In 1962, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, held a retrospective exhibition of Burlin's work. Collections include the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Whitney Museum of American Art; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts; and the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.   This superb oil, Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, is signed by the artist on the front lower left “Paul Burlin”. It measures 26” x 32” and is framed in a spectacular antique gold leafed wood frame for a total size of 33” x 40”. It is in good condition aside from surface craquelure and signs of age. It would benefit from a professional cleaning and conservation. Authenticity is GUARANTEED. An oil painting by Paul Burlin sold at auction recently for $26,400. (Sotheby’s, New York, 12/12/2006). Gallery and dealer prices are always much higher. Please scroll down on the item description to view additional photographs. Winning bidder add $65.00 packing & shipping within the US, plus required insurance. Payment is due within 7 days. Please view my other auctions and ebay store for additional museum quality fine art and collectibles. Payment       I accept the following forms of payment: PayPal Money Order Personal Check Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album Click to View Image Album     FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager.    FREE scheduling, supersized images and templates. Get Vendio Sales Manager. Over 100,000,000 served. Get FREE counters from Vendio today! Place a Bid!