page_title: Elizabeth Eaton Burton
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Elizabeth Eaton Burton / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1901) Photograph by the painter and sculptor Frederick Remington
context_page_description: Elizabeth Eaton Burton was an American artist and designer whose work typified the Arts and Crafts style in southern California.
context_section_description: Burton began her career by exhibiting work at art shows and craft fairs in southern California. As her work developed, the range of media she worked in expanded until it embraced metalwork, stained glass, bookbinding, and tooled leather, as well as print media (woodcuts) and watercolor. Many of her works feature floral motifs, and there is a clear influence from Asian art in both style and subject matter that is especially evident in her prints. Typical of her work in the Arts and Crafts style are copper lamps shaped as abstract flowers with abalone shells forming the shade. Other lamps had botanical elements incorporated through repoussé techniques. One of Burton's fountains, made of copper with a koi motif, is in the lobby of the Mammoth Hotel in Yellowstone National Park.
  In 1896, Burton opened her own studio in Santa Barbara, where she specialized in decorative objects made of metal, leather, and shell. As the new century started, she was showing her work on both coasts. In 1904, both she and her father participated in the arts exhibits at the St. Louis World's Fair, with Elizabeth showing leatherwork inlaid with shell or decorated with silver leaf. She patented a technique she had developed for using ornamental leatherwork on furniture and screens, and her leather screens were praised by Gustav Stickley in his influential magazine The Craftsman.
  In 1909, Burton moved her family to Los Angeles and opened a studio in the Blanchard Building. That same year she won a medal at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle (another event at which both she and her father both exhibited).
  In 1920, Burton's husband died of a heart attack and she began a two-year world tour that included a stop in Paris for advanced art training and time in Brittany painting local scenes. When she returned to Los Angeles, she published a book about her travels, Paris Vignettes (1928).
  In the 1920s, Burton was active in promoting French culture and art in California. In recognition of these efforts, she was awarded the Palme Academique in 1929 by the French government.
  In 1930, following her father's death, Burton spent two more years in France, after which she went to China and Japan to paint watercolors and study woodblock printing. A number of her watercolors were published as woodblock prints by the Tokyo publisher Kato Junji and formed the core of a traveling exhibition that circled the globe in 1935–36, making stops in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo, Los Angeles, and New York.
  Burton died in Los Angeles on November 15, 1937.
caption: Elizabeth Eaton Burton (1901)Photograph by the painter and sculptor Frederick Remington
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