Margaret Taylor Burroughs was an author, painter, sculptor, printmaker, curator, museum director, activist, and teacher who left an amazing artistic and historic legacy in Chicago. In today’s episode we’ll find out how she helped launch the Chicago Renaissance in the ’40s and how she combined her social activism with art.
“Still Life” by Margaret Burroughs, American, 1943
Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.)
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Cain, Mary Ann, and Haki R. Madhubuti. South Side Venus : the Legacy of Margaret Burroughs Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2019.
Link to materials on Margaret Burroughs at the NGA Library
The Southern University Fine Arts Department Presents Dr. Burroughs., n.d.
You Are Cordially Invited to an Exhibition of New Paintings by Dr. Margaret Burroughs., 1992.
Margaret Burroughs, Marion Perkins : A Retrospective. Washington, D.C. (1910 Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington 20001): Evans-Tibbs Collection, 1982.
Samples of Burrough’s later works
The Woman Who Helped Birth a Black Artistic Renaissance in Chicago (Vice article)
Margaret Burroughs, co-founder of DuSable Museum, dies at 95
Wikipedia entry
Linocut printmaking video