25 Facts About Paul Burlin

Paul Burlin was an American modern and abstract expressionist painter.

Paul Burlin was born Isadore Berlin to Jacob and Julia Berlin in 1886 in New York.

Paul Burlin's sister, Carrie, was born in 1890, his brother, David, in 1895.

Paul Burlin disliked the name Isadore, and stopped using it as soon as he could, when he left home at 16.

Paul Burlin found it too painful to discuss his early years, and he refused to do so.

Paul Burlin had completely separated from his family and his past, and continued to be forward thinking his whole life.

From 1900 to 1912, Paul Burlin was a part-time student at the National Academy of Art and the Art Student's League.

Paul Burlin was able to travel in Europe in 1908 to 1909.

Paul Burlin was invited to participate in the 1913 69th Regiment Armory Show in New York, the first Modern art exhibition in the United States.

Paul Burlin moved to Santa Fe in 1913 and painted there until 1920, while exhibiting his work in New York City.

Paul Burlin painted portraits of Pueblo Indians, landscapes, and scenes of local daily life.

Paul Burlin was heavily influenced by the spirituality of the Pueblo Indians.

Paul Burlin's work was shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibition in 1919.

Paul Burlin was an ethnomusicologist working to preserve Native American Indian music in New Mexico.

Paul Burlin studied European abstract painting styles, which influenced his increasingly socially concerned themes.

Paul Burlin's work was included in the New York Museum of Modern Art's Ninth Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in 1930.

Paul Burlin was not able to attend since he was still in Paris.

Paul Burlin worked as a member of the Federal Project of the Whitney Museum.

Paul Burlin was among those who signed the call for the American Artist's Congress in 1936.

Paul Burlin used images from Greek mythology to paint commentary against the brutality of war.

Paul Burlin exhibited in the 1944 Art in Progress show.

Paul Burlin begins to use abstract expressionism as a mode for personal expression.

Paul Burlin divorced his third wife in 1946 and married Margaret Timmerman in 1947.

Paul Burlin was invited to be Artist in Residence at many universities and museums such as the University of Minnesota, Washington University in St Louis, University of Colorado, University of Wyoming, USC, Union College of New York, and the University of Texas.

Paul Burlin painted, even at the times when he was declared legally blind.