Not to be harsh, but as an art history graduate student, you need
to learn how to do this sort of research yourself. The Bay Area is filled
with resources you can get to v. easily on BART, such as UC Berkeley and
SFSU, which has a very good art history collection. Stanford is great too,
but may be more difficult to access. At Berkeley you should start in the
reference room--ask the librarian for help! You are allowed to use the
library as a resident of CA.  There are volumes and volumes of reference
tools on American art, which has been very intensively studied. There are
also online sources such as BHA, the Art Index, and the Humanities Index.
        You can also call around to some of the museums such as Fine Arts
Museums of SF and the Oakland Museum and see if they have someone there
who might be able to look the painting over.
        Part of the pleasure of the study of art is a "chase" just like
yours. Don't become one of those students who can't do research!

        Adrienne DeAngelis
        Editor, Resources in Art History for Graduat Students
        (http:www.efn.org/~acd/resources.html


On Tue, 4 May 2004, Danita Fleck wrote:

> A friend has acquired a painting signed "Burkland".
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> It appears to be an oil painting of a fall/winter scene in a park
> (perhaps Central Park).
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> We are assuming that the painter may be August P. Burkland, born Sweden
> October 18, 1879, and died Pasadena April 1927. He is most famous for
> scenes of the American Southwest; however, we understand from the
> limited information we have found that he was living and working in New
> York city at some point in his life.
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> We are looking for more information about him and have exhausted the
> resources of the local San Jose State University/ML King Jr. library art
> reference books.
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> Please let us know where to find additional information.
>
> Thanx!
>
> Danita Fleck
> Graduate Student - Art History
> San Jose State University
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