Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Josephine Burns

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
MacDowell Fellowships: 1960, 1964, 1965, 1967
Josephine Burns worked in paintings and pastels. She was certified at Cooper Union Art School in 1939, where she went on to earn her B.F.A. in 1976. She married Jerome Burns in 1943. Her employment includes work as a draftsman at George Sharp, Marine Architect, New York City, 1941-1945; as co-director of Hicks St. Gallery, Brooklyn, 1958-1963; and as associate director of Brownstone Gallery, Brooklyn, 1969-1976. Her painting Pink Curtains is held in the collection of the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.

Studios

Adams

Josephine Burns worked in the Adams studio.

Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…

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