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ROY E. BURGESS

Roy (Edward) Burgess (born 1947-    ) is an American figurative artist who paints people of diverse cultures. Burgess meets the people that he paints during his journeys exploring and learning about other cultures. He tells their stories in his paintings.

The artist works primarily in soft pastels, all though early in his career he painted with acrylics. He also carves and scrimshaws ivory

Burgess was born and raised in Jefferson, Iowa, U.S.A. He has had no formal training and educated himself by viewing the art of others. He blends traditional and contemporary elements to create his artworks. . Hence his realism paintings are uniquely his own style. You can't separate his art from his life.

History

In the 1970's, he painted the cowboys and Indians of the American West. In the 1980's he focused on documenting the farmers and small town people of the Midwest resulting in his first solo museum exhibit at Cedar Rapids Art Museum. In 1989 Burgess created and implemented a successful artist exchange with the Soviet Union's Ministry of Culture of the Stavropol Territory. 1990's Burgess was living in a monastery painting the First Americans of the Plains. Later in the decade he moved to the West Indies to research the unique cultures of the Caribbean. The 2000's took the artist to the Hawai'ian islands to paint the Hawai'i people of the Pacific.

Burgess is represented in museum and private collections, including the Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art and Stavropol Territorial Museum of Fine Art.

Articles[edit]

"Iowa Artist conveys His Rural Heritage"  Dee Ann Rexroat, Cedar Rapids Gazette, December 12, 1986 http://royeburgess.com/C.R._Gazette.html He Paints the Dignity of Farming, Loren Kruse, Successful Farming magazine, October, 1997 http://royeburgess.com/Successful_Farming_2.html Portrait Exhibit Enters Final Weeks, St. Joseph Gazette, july 12, 1988 http://royeburgess.com/Mrs._Boder.html Artist Paints Midwest Wrinkles, Susan B. Gwiasda, The Messenger, March 9, 1989 http://royeburgess.com/The_Messenger.html Photography? No,Pictorial Art, S. Soutoulof, Stavropolskaya Pravada http://royeburgess.com/Photos,_No.html Artist Dreamt About His Exhibit, V. Degterenko, Caucasian Spas, December 15, 1989 http://royeburgess.com/Caucasian_Spa.html East-West Exchange, Linda Wiedmaier, St. Joseph Press/Gazette, August 2, 1990 http://royeburgess.com/East-West.html American, Soviet Artist Exchange Work, Ideas, Roxanne Dale, St. Joseph Telegraph, July 26, 1990 http://royeburgess.com/American_Soviet.html Paintings by People To People Ambassador, The Call, October 29, 1992 http://royeburgess.com/PTPI.html Painter Uncovers City Faces, Jennifer Howe, Kansas City Star, November 18, 1992 http://royeburgess.com/Jennifer_Howe.html He Paints What He sees, Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star, April 20, 2001 http://books.google.com/books?id=SuXY3M5vz34C&pg=PA539&lpg=PA539&dq=roy+burgess&source=web&ots=GfWPiOLbzY&sig=amzAorwxeKTwjd27WcEGzr8ri9w&hl=en#v=onepage&q=roy%20burgess&f=false

Videos[edit]

Roy Burgess-1980s Artist Profile-YouTube    www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlOZcgfv2g Iowa Artist Roy Burgess hosts Russian Artist Alexei Sokolenko-YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v.. STREETS-paintings by Roy E. Burgess-YouTube   www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwx7F3Rcj10 STREETS Exhibit at Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center-YouTube www.youtube.com/user/royeburgess

External links[edit]

Artist website: http://www.royeburgess.com/Welcome.html Artist Linkedin website: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/roy-e-burgess/29/b25/6b7 Art In Embassies website:   http://aiep.artistroster.org/portfolio.cfm?id=1590 Blanden Art Museum on Behance:  www.behance.net › Discover › Roy Burgess‎