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Emerson Burkhart

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 Item — Box: 1

Identifier: OVS 7469

Scope and Contents

Photograph of Ohio artist, Emerson Burkhart. The portrait was likely taken while Burkhart was attending Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio from 1923-1927.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1923-1927

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Conditions Governing Access

Conditions Governing Use

The donor has transferred all copyrights as they posess in the collection to the public domain. Consideration of copyright is the responsibility of the author or publisher.

Biographical / Historical

Emerson Burkhart was an Ohio artist born in Kalida, Ohio in 1905. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio and moved to Provincetown on Cape Code to study with artist Charles Hawthorne. By 1931 he returned to Ohio and was teaching at the Ohio School of Art in Columbus, and in 1939 married model Mary-Ann Martin. Burkhart received two commissions from the Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project and painted an estimated 3,000 pieces over his 40-year-caree

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Biography:

“Emerson Burkhart was born near Kalida, Ohio in 1905” (1).

“As a youngster, he was given his first art lessons by a local minister who gave him pointers on drawing. Burkhart's teachers and classmates were also aware of his talent and often recruited him to produce playbills, posters and other artistic announcements for school activities. His brother Paul, shared none of these attributes and was happy to become a farmer, just like his father” (2).

“He studied at the Art Student's League and then went to Provincetown where he took instruction from Charles Hawthorne” (1).

“Burkhart's instructor, Charles Hawthorne, urged Emerson to return to his roots and paint the truth that was his world growing up, the Midwest. He took this advice to heart and produced a prolific number of paintings and self-portraits over the next 45 years. Although Burkhart never carefully catalogued his life's work, he estimated in a 1964 interview that he had painted more than 4,000 works. By some estimates, he may have produce yet another 1,000 paintin

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