Burr Singer

Burr Singer
Born	(1912-11-20)November 20, 1912 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died	November 18, 1992(1992-11-18) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Bernice Lee ("Burr") Singer (born St. Louis, Missouri November 20, 1912; died Los Angeles, California November 18, 1992) was an American artist who worked in Social Realism subject matter, principally in watercolor, oil paint, and lithography. ^{[1] [2]} Singer is noted as a painter of African Americans who "spent the entire 1930s painting African-Americans because she said that nobody was painting them realistically. Everything else was stereotypical, caricatures." ^[3]

References

1. "Bernice Lee (Burr) Singer - Artist Biography for Bernice Lee (Burr) Singer". www.askart.com.
2. "Burr Singer Biography – California Watercolor". www.californiawatercolor.com.
3. Bill Ward (2007-08-03). "Going on the offensive" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-04-19.

Further reading

• Hughes, Edan Milton (2002). Artists in California, 1786-1940: L-Z. Crocker Art Museum. p. 1026. ISBN   9781884038082.
• Landau, Ellen G. (1983). Artists for Victory: An Exhibition Catalog. Library of Congress. p. 104. ISBN   9780844404325.
• Mobile Museum of Art; Georgia Museum of Art (2003). Coming home: American paintings, 1930-1950, from the Schoen collection. Georgia Museum of Art. p. 298. ISBN   9780915977505.

External links

• Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951