Carol Burnham

Artist Details

• First Name Carol
• Middle Name Louise
• Maiden Name Burnham
• Surname Burnham
• Birth Date February 22, 1908
• Birth Place Chicago, Illinois
• Death Date 1997
• Death Place Winnetka, Illinois
• Residence(s) Winnetka, Illinois
• Categories Muralist, Painter-Oil, Watercolorist
• Training 1927: graduated New Trier High School
  1922: Fountainbleau School of Fine Arts, Paris, France; studied fresco painting
  1946, Master of Fine Arts degree: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  Student of Andre Lhôte
  Student of Paul Baudouin
  Student of R. LaMontagne St. Hubert
  student of Anita Willets-Burnham
  
• Relevant Travel 1928-1930: Europe, Far East, Middle East
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1922: Paris Salon, Paris, France
  
  1924: International Water Color Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1925, 1927, 1928, 1935, 1938, 1943: Annual Exhibition of Works by Chicago and Vicinity Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  April 21-May 5, 1927: North Shore Art League exhibit, Wilmette, Illinois
  
  July 23-October 11, 1931: Watercolors by Anita Willets Burnham and Carol Lou Burnham, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1931: Grand Central Art Gallery, New York, New York [solo]
  
  1933: Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1935: 14^th International Water Color Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Scabiosa
  
  1936, 1945: North Shore Art League, Winnetka and Chicago, Illinois
  
  December 1-17, 1940: Evanston Art Center, Evanston, Illinois [oils and watercolors by Carol and her mother]
• Memberships North Shore Art Association, Winnetka, Illinois
  
  Women's Architectural Club, Chicago, Illinois
• Archive(s) Anita Willets-Burnham and Burnham family collection, Winnetka Historical Society, Winnetka, Illinois
• Other Occupation(s) 1931-1943: Substitute teacher, Winnetka Public Schools, Winnetka, Illinois
  
  circa 1946-1947: Art instructor, Menlo Park, Illinois
  
  1947-1954: Instructor, Layton School of Art and Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Biography Daughter of Anita Willets-Burnham.