Clara Miller Burd (C.M. Burd) was born in 1873 in New York City. She studied art in New York and then in Paris and also studied stained glass design later at the Tiffany studios in New York. Her career included work as a stained glass artist, a magazine cover illustrator, a portrait painter and, most significantly, as a popular book illustrator. Many of her beautiful book illustrations can be found on the internet. Burd was famous for her images of children, and some can be found on postcards. We open with one of her Sunday School designs that has her signature at lower right. Another Sunday School postcard can be seen below.
zaterdag 30 juli 2016
CLARA BURD
Clara Miller Burd (C.M. Burd) was born in 1873 in New York City. She studied art in New York and then in Paris and also studied stained glass design later at the Tiffany studios in New York. Her career included work as a stained glass artist, a magazine cover illustrator, a portrait painter and, most significantly, as a popular book illustrator. Many of her beautiful book illustrations can be found on the internet. Burd was famous for her images of children, and some can be found on postcards. We open with one of her Sunday School designs that has her signature at lower right. Another Sunday School postcard can be seen below.
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