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William Burpee

William Partridge Burpee (1846 - 1940) was active/lived in Maine, Massachusetts.  William Burpee is known for Coastal view, landscape, genre, figure.

Landscape and figure painter William Partridge Burpee was born in Rockland, Maine on April 13, 1846. As a young man, he was educated in Rockland schools and in the Kents Hill Academy in Readfield, Maine. He exhibited a great deal of interest as a youth in painting and drawing, In the late 1870s, he studied with marine painter, William Bradford (1823-1894). Burpee's early work of the 1880s reflects Bradford's influence as well as other painters such as Martin Johnson Heade, Fitz Hugh Lane, Frederic Edwin Church, A. T. Bricher and F. A. Silva.

After briefly advertising himself as an artist in the Rockland City Directory in 1882, Burpee appeared that year in Boston. By September 1, 1885, he was painting figures on Lynn Beach, Massachusetts, between Nahant and Swampscott in a style that now reflected the influence of French painting particularly Eugene Boudin and Emile Louis Vernier. He showed life of the beach with children at play, dorymen, lobstermen, netmenders, women waiting fo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6191 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about William Burpee

   Publications  Book References:  20
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for William Burpee
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Henri Circle & the American Imp August 2004 Danly, Susan Yes
American Art Review The Lynn Beach Painters April 1999 Howlett, D Roger Yes
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming November 1998 Ledes, Allison Eckardt Yes
20 Book References for William Burpee
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Side by Side on Monhegan: The Henri Circle and The American Impressionists
(Exhibition catalog)
60 Yes
2000 Jarzombek, Nancy Allyn Boston Art Club: 1855-1950 88 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Howlett, D Roger The Lynn Beach Painters: Art Along the North Shore 1880-1920 92 Yes
1995 Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward) Monhegan: The Artists' Island 192 Yes
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
335 No
1991 Howlett, D Roger/W Gerdts William Partridge Burpee American Marine Impressionist 96 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)
612 No
1989 Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro) At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
140 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1980 Archibald, E H H Dictionary of Sea Painters 455 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Editors Who's Who in American Art American Art Annual, 1933 0 No
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Editor) Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art
(Exhibition catalog)
281 No
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