H. Saxton Burr

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BIOGRAPHY

A small work of loosely painted of a lake with land on either side and mountains in the background under a gray sky by Saxton Burr.

HAROLD SAXTON BURR

(1889-1947)

 

(Educator, Painter, Writer, Lecturer) Resided in New Haven and Lyme, Connecticut.  Born 10, April 1889 in Lowell, Massachusetts.  Studied at Yale University.  Member: Lyme Art Association; New Haven Paint and Clay Club; William Whitmore.  Exhibited: Lyme Art Association 1926-1946; New Haven Paint and Clay Club, 1930-1946.  Positions:  Teacher Yale University School of Fine Arts, 1939, Yale University School of Medicine.

 

(The above was taken from Who Was Who in American Art, 1898-1947.  Published in 1985 by Sound View Press.  Edited by Peter Hastings Falk.)