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160. JAMES EDWIN McBURNEY (American 1868-1955) PAIR OF “Courtyard
Garden Scenes”, oil on board, signed. 15 ½ in. x 12 in.

McBurney, a painter, illustrator and muralist, studied in New York at the Pratt Institute and with
John Twachtmann and Charles Davis. He also studied in Philadelphia at the Drexel Institute and
the Brandywine School of Art with Howard Pyle before moving to Paris where he enrolled in
the Academies Colarossi and Castelucho. His murals can be seen at Chicago’s Palmer Park Field
House, Woodlawn National Bank, Parkside School, Wentworth School, Scott School, and Tilden
Technical School, as well as at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and the State Agricultural
Expo Building in Dubuque, IA.

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