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- 63 cm of textual records and other material
- Includes five sketchbooks.
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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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Accrual consists of material relating to the artistic and literary career of Virgil Burnett. Includes sketchbooks with illustrations and life drawings; commonplace books with original works as well as copied quotations, passages and ephemera; manuscripts; poetry and plays; as well as writings by others given to Burnett.
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Donated posthumously by Maud McInery Burnett in 2012.
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The series structure follows that of the original finding aid so not all series numbers appear.
Arranged in four series as follows:
- 4.3. Works by Virgil Burnett;
- 4.11. Sketchbooks;
- 4.12. Commonplace Books;
- 5.1. Works by Others.
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Some materials in spiral bound and hardbound books.
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Description by Jessica Blackwell, Fall 2012.