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MARGARET BURROUGHS (1917 - ) Birthday Party.
Etching, 1986. 310x445 mm; 12 1/8x17 inches, wide (full?) margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/4 in pencil, lower margin. Scattered stains lower margin, outside the image. A fine impression of this scarce print.
Margaret Burroughs has been a pioneering female artist in Chicago from the WPA era to the present. She is a leader and founder of the South Side Community Art Center, the Du Sable Museum and the National Conference of Artists. The South Side Community Art Center was made part of the Federal Art Project, and formally dedicated by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1941. Its purpose was to make art and culture available to minority groups and to provide jobs for artists and other cultural workers. Her contemporaries at the center included Charles White, Bernard Goss, George Neal, Eldzier Cortor, Gordon Parks, Charles Sebree and Archibald Motley. Margaret Burroughs's works are in the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, Detroit and the Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware.
