Iowa Heritage Digital Collections
State Library of Iowa

Two Showgirls

Two Showgirls

Title

Two Showgirls

Description

Born in the South, Burford came to Iowa to study with Grant Wood before World War II, then left to serve in the U.S. Air Force, and later returned to take his M.F.A. in Iowa City, where he settled down to capture his semi-remembered, semi-imagined world through paintings and prints and to teach decade after decade of grateful students.
If America holds a living counter-part of Frederico Fellini, it is Iowa's venerable visual artist Byron Burford. Both larger-than-life creators, ebullient bon vivants, observers of the human condition, and both deeply fascinated with the worlds of circuses, legendary entertainers, and jazz, these giant talents both captured the innocence, lyricism, gaudy diversity, and pathos of their generations before and after World War II.

Creator

Burford, Byron

Publisher

University of Iowa. School of Art and Art History

Date

2005-05-19

Rights

Digital collection © The University of Iowa. All works are copyright the individual artist.

Relation

The Daily Palette Digital Collection
Visual Arts
http://dailypalette.uiowa.edu/?artwork=539

Format

18
13
giclee

Type

Still image
Iris prints

Identifier

05192005.jpg
183409339
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/