Burleigh, Sydney Richmond, 1853-1931
Painter, Illustrator
Size: 9 v.
Summary: Nine sketchbooks with drawings from art classes, from his travels in England, France, Holland, Italy, and Switzerland, and for book illustrations. Three photographs of Burleigh and one of his house in Little Compton, Rhode Island, were inserted in the sketchbooks and have been microfilmed with them.
Painter and illustrator. Burleigh studied under Paul Laurens in Paris. He was founder of the Art Workers Guild as well as an officer in the Providence Art Club from 1886 to 1931.
Lent for microfilming 1985 by the Providence Art Club.
Microfilm reel 3554 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
The Archives of American art does not own the original papers. Use is limited to the microfilm copy.
Sydney Richmond Burleigh sketchbooks, 1875-1914. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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