Evening star., 1953-06-12
Marguerite Burgess Sketches in New Cookbook
Versatile Artist Enjoys Puntinq Illustrating, Desqnino
BY Betty Miles


Days are never dull for versa
tile artist Marguerite Burgess.
A painter who has received many
honors. Miss Burgess also illus
trates cookbooks, designs dress
material. and, for good measure,
is writing and illustrating a
children's story, too.
The third cookbook in which
her sketches appear, Marian
Tracy's Complete Chicken Cook
cry" was published today. She
also Illustrated Mrs. Tracy's
More Casserole Cookery" and
THE East-West Book of Rice
Cookery"
Miss Burgess roomy, pine
paneled kitchen with it's old
fashioned air couldn't fail to in
spire an artist with a cookbook
on her mind. It's not unusual
for her to have a dish from the
book brewing on the stove there
while she sketches in the studio
behind her home in Glen Echo
Heights.
The Studio-once a garage,
now transformed by a skylight-
and the kitchen are the heart of
the home of modern design on
Mohican road. In private life,
modest, unaSSuming Miss Bur-
CESS is Mrs. Arthur j. Clawson,
wife of publisher of aviation
periodicals, and the mother of
5-year-old Cathie The Claw
sons spend a lot of time in their
livable kitchen-"especially when
Cathie and her friends watch
teleVlsion in the living ROOM"
Miss Burgess explained. One of
her water colors is hung there,
as we'll as a self-portrait by
Cathie.
Although only Is minutes from
Dupont Circle by automobile, the
family lives in the country on
212 acres of land.
I'VE used to have a ZOO, prac-
tically." Miss Burgess recalled,
but we're down to a cat and
dog now
The couple bought their home
five years ago. then lived through
the heart-breaking experience of
seeing it Quilted by fire a few
years later. They are still re-
placing their furniture, which
was destroyed completely.
A native of this area, Mar
Euerite Burgess has had her
work hung in most of the major
exhibitions in the country, in
Cluding the Chicago Art Insti-
tute international Exhibition
and the American Painting To-
day exhibit at the Metropolitan
Museum in New York City.
She has instructed in both the
Corcoran and the Phillips GAL
lery, and for two years served
on the administrative staff of
the Phillips. For the last four
years she has taught painting at
the Workshop Center of the Arts.
She also was art editor for The
Washington Spectator.
The recipient of many awards,
Miss Burgess was one of the
winners of the Hallmark Awards
for Christmas card design last
year. She is represented in the
collection of the Phillips Gal
lery, the c. Law Watkins Me-
mortal Collection at American
University, the Baltimore Mu-
scum of Art and in private COL
lections.
Miss Burgess prefers oil paint
Ing, but also works in water
colors and lithography. She is
particularly we'll known for her
imaginative Interpretation of
birds. Pigeons are her favorites.
although I know some people
In Washington don't like them"
she said, smiling. II painted
sandpipers first, then graduated
to pigeons"
Ironically, when she began to
work on her newest project, de-
signing dress material for the
Associated American Artists
Gallery, she found that birds
were the one motif absolutely
taboo. i was told some people