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Virgil Burnett was an American author, illustrator, and instructor of fine arts. Born in Kansas in 1928, 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 drawings by Virgil Burnett prepared for Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell, printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club (Westport, CT, 1976). The book contains 8 colour illustrations. File includes drafts of the drawings as well as bon a tirer proofs; includes 37 drawings in total. Some of the drawings are black and white, some are coloured with watercolours, and some are mounted on cardboard.
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Oversized.
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Donated by Virgil Burnett in 1994.
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Bon a tirer proofs: from A&AT: bon à tirer proofs (proofs (prints by function), <prints by function>, ... Visual and Verbal Communication). Note: Proofs designated by the artist to serve as the standard, both aesthetically and technically, for the printing of the edition. Sometimes identical with the printers' proofs of the edition.
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Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice is in our RB collection: G10799.
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Illustration title (number of drafts / drawings in file): Jurgen (5), Heitman Michael comes in search of Dorothy (4), A private conversation with Guenevere (5), Jurgen sets sail with Anaitis (5), Chloris, the Hamadryad (5), Queen Dolores, lovely as a hawk (6), Florimel lights Jurgen to her cleft (3), Koshchei, busied with the Stellar Accounts (4).