Waiting in frustration for the art world to recognize him, Burpee spent his own money on the half-inch-thick, full-color, catalogue-quality retrospective of his own artistic output. He's planning to pitch the art book to major art museums around the country and has organized a complementary retrospective art exhibition, opening at the California Building Gallery in Minneapolis.
This art exhibition was born through a visit Burpee paid to the California Building Art Gallery. One of the three owners of the art gallery, listened and opened the gallery for Burpee to create his own retrospective. The gallery owner was a kindred soul - an artist himself.
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Irish Art
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James Burpee has painted hundreds of yards of art on canvas. Local galleries have given him art shows since the '60s, and companies have bought his art - but no museum collected him, and no galleries outside Minnesota have exhibited him in nearly 30 years. For the moment, Burpee's creative career sits shrink-wrapped in the form of a book titled "James Burpee: Paintings and Drawings, 1960-2004."
Waiting in frustration for the art world to recognize him, Burpee spent his own money on the half-inch-thick, full-color, catalogue-quality retrospective of his own artistic output. He's planning to pitch the art book to major art museums around the country and has organized a complementary retrospective art exhibition, opening at the California Building Gallery in Minneapolis.
This art exhibition was born through a visit Burpee paid to the California Building Art Gallery. One of the three owners of the art gallery, listened and opened the gallery for Burpee to create his own retrospective. The gallery owner was a kindred soul - an artist himself.
For the full story - click the title
Irish Art
Waiting in frustration for the art world to recognize him, Burpee spent his own money on the half-inch-thick, full-color, catalogue-quality retrospective of his own artistic output. He's planning to pitch the art book to major art museums around the country and has organized a complementary retrospective art exhibition, opening at the California Building Gallery in Minneapolis.
This art exhibition was born through a visit Burpee paid to the California Building Art Gallery. One of the three owners of the art gallery, listened and opened the gallery for Burpee to create his own retrospective. The gallery owner was a kindred soul - an artist himself.
For the full story - click the title
Irish Art
