Elbridge Ayer Burbank

"Elbridge Ayer (E. A.) Burbank" (born August 10, 1858 in Harvard, Illinois, died April 21, 1949 in San Francisco, California) was an American artist who sketeched and painted many Native Americans, including being the only person to paint Geronimo from life.Fact|date=March 2008

Family

Elbridge was born on August 10, 1858 in Harvard, Illinois to Abner Jewett and Anna Maria (Ayer) Burbank. He died April 21, 1949 in San Francisco, California after being struck by a cable car on January 27 in front of the Manx Hotel (now the Villa Florence). Elbridge was a second cousin, three times removed from Luther Burbank - and a second cousin, twice removed from Gerald Ford, 38th president of the US.

His uncle, Edward E. Ayer, was a successful business magnate, museum benefactor and an avid antiquarian collector of books, original manuscripts and other materials relating to the history and ethnology of Native American peoples at the time of European encounter. His collection, one of the founding donations to the Newberry Library in Chicago, contains a number of Elbridge's works.

Life

E. A. was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, referred to as 'manic depression' at the time, and was treated at several different facilities during his life - most notably for over ten years at the State Mental Hospital in Napa, California.

'E. A.' was the only artist to paint Geronimo from life. He painted or sketched more than 1,200 native Americans from 125 tribes. He spent many months, over several years, at the Hubbell Trading Post. Burbank, Oklahoma is named after him.

Final Resting Place(s): Mt. Olivet Memorial Park, San Francisco, California, then Forest View Abby in Rockford, Illinois, then in 1984 to Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Harvard, Illinois.

Education

*Public School in Harvard, IL
*1874 Chicago Academy of Design - Leonard Volk
*1886-87 Munich, Germany – Paul Navin and Frederick Fehr
*1889-90 Munich, Germany – Toby Rosenthal

Published works

* [http://www.harvard-diggins.org/Burbank/Burbank_Among_The_Indians/Burbank_Among_the_Indians.htm Burbank Among the Indians] - [http://www.caxtonpress.com/ Caxton Press] - 1944 "Placed online with permission of Caxton Press"

Holding Institutions

* [http://www.artic.edu/aic/ Art Institute of Chicago]
* [http://www.amnh.org/ American Museum of Natural History]
* [http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/ Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library] - Yale University
* [http://www.butlerart.com/ Butler Institute of American Art]
* [http://www.cmrussell.org/ C. M. Russell Museum]
* [http://www.harvard-diggins.org/ Harvard-Diggins Library]
* [http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/arts/art_gallery/ Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary's College]
* [http://www.nps.gov/hutr/ Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site] - National Park Service
* [http://www.lutherburbank.org/ Luther Burbank Home & Gardens]
* [http://autrynationalcenter.org/ Museum of the America West]
* [http://www.newberry.org/ Newberry Library]
* [http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/ Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology] - Harvard University
* [http://www.phxart.org/ Phoenix Art Museum]
* [http://www.rockfordartmuseum.org/ Rockford Art Museum]
* [http://americanart.si.edu/ Smithsonian American Art Museum]

Works of Art

Tribes

(note: viewed as Burbank used, linked to current tribal page)
Acoma * Agua Caliente * Apache * Arapahoe * Cahuilla * Campo * Cheyenne * Chimevava * Cochiti Pueblo * Columbia * Comanche * Coo-Koo-Lah * Crow * Desert Calmilla * Desert Cahuilla * Diegueno * Digeno * Digger * Hualapai * Hopi * Hoopa * Isleta Pueblo * Jemez * Jicarilla Apache * Jule River * Kabahimen * Kickapoo * Kiowa * Kobalthnent * Laguna Pueblo * Lower Klamath * Mad River * Maidu * Meteneck * Meuwock * Modoc * Mohave * Moqui * Na-Po * Nambe * Napa * Navajo * Nez Perces * Nomelacki * Ottawa * Panamint * Papago * Pala * Picuris * Pima * Poma * Pomo * Pueblo * Sac and Fox * San Felipe * San Felipe Pueblo * San Felippo * San Ignacio * San Luis Rey * Sandia Pueblo * Santa Ana Pueblo * Santa Clara * Seranno * Shawnee * Sioux * Soboba * South Fork Paiute * Southern Cheyenne * Sun Pum * Southern Ute * Tejon * Temecula * Tewa * Tule River * Ukiah * Ukiah Saiaz * Ukie * Ute * Washoe * Wylackie * Yackima * Yaqui * Yuma * Yuma Apache * Walpi * Zia Pueblo * Zuni

Travels

*Munich, Germany
*Oberammergau, Germany
*Cardiff, Wales
*Ft. Sill, OK

References

* [http://www.harvard-diggins.org/Burbank/ Burbank Timeline]
* [http://www.harvard-diggins.org/ Harvard-Diggins Library]