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Birthday Party

Print in black ink of a group of mostly dark-skinned children wearing dress clothes and cone-shaped party hats, gathered around a birthday cake. A girl at center smiles brightly while a boy at the table behind her looks glum. A woman behind the table moves to cut the cake as another looks on.
© Margaret Burroughs

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  • Print in black ink of a group of mostly dark-skinned children wearing dress clothes and cone-shaped party hats, gathered around a birthday cake. A girl at center smiles brightly while a boy at the table behind her looks glum. A woman behind the table moves to cut the cake as another looks on.

Date:

1957

Artist:

Margaret Burroughs
American, 1915-2010

About this artwork

In 1922, 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

Copyright

© Margaret Burroughs

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