Richard Burnside Folk Art Original. Medium : Marker on Card Stock. Size : 11″ X 14″. Stored in flat file many years. Richard Burnside (1944 – 2020) was an American self-taught folk art painter known for his distinct portraiture style and use of patterns. He had lived in. But spent the last few years of his life in Georgia. Some art historians and curators believe that Burnside’s subjects are “an Africanized mythology from biblical stories, folktales, and even nursery rhymes”. He finds motifs of his paintings in other artworks and in every-day objects, from Army insignia to beer mugs and telephone poles, and has invented personal symbols that he terms his’Roman Alphabet. These symbols including spiders, snakes and other creatures most often surround his depictions of flat, round, mask-like faces, which he has seen in dreams and’coming out of the walls. He titles his frontal, staring figures kings, queens, ad priests. Burnside was known to paint on found material such as gourds, cardboard, sticks and scraps of metal, but his most common surface was thin plywood. He used enamel as a primary layer, drew his composition with a felt tip pen, and then filled in the drawing with colorful paint. He then left the completed painting on a table outside for about a day to allow the piece to weather. The typical size of Burnside’s pieces were 30″ x 30″ or smaller. Burnside’s work is in the permanent collections of the. Minneapolis Institute of Art. Smithsonian American Art Museum. He had a retrospective show at the McKissick Museum in Columbia, South Carolina in 2016. The item “Richard Burnside Folk Art Signed” is in sale since Tuesday, March 30, 2021. This item is in the category “Art\Folk Art & Indigenous Art”. The seller is “t_tino” and is located in Princeton, New Jersey. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Region of Origin: US-Southeast
- Artist: Richard Burnside
- Style: Folk Art
- Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
- Date of Creation: Unknown
- Type: Paintings
- Original/Reproduction: Original
- Features: Signed
- Signed?: Signed
- Originality: Original
