Birthday Party

Prints and Drawings

1957

Margaret Burroughs
American, 1915-2010

In 1922, at the age of five, Margaret Burroughs moved with her family from Louisiana to Chicago’s South Side. She was instrumental in establishing the South Side Community Art Center, and in 1948 she completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Art Institute. Soon after, she traveled to Mexico to study printmaking; there she was particularly influenced by the powerful graphic style of Leopoldo Méndez.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Margaret Burroughs
Title: Birthday Party
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1955–1958
Medium: Linocut on cream wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 40.5 × 48 cm (16 × 18 15/16 in.); Sheet: 45.5 × 57.5 cm (17 15/16 × 22 11/16 in.)
Credit Line: Joyce Turner Hilkevitch Collection in memory of Jonathan Turner
Reference Number: 1991.895

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