A FEW WORDS

ABOUT THE ART OF
DAVID BURLIUK.

David Burliuk, noted Russian-American artist is having his first exhibition in Boston, and we take great pleasure to bring to the attention of the Boston art-lovers a few outstanding facts about his life and art.

In the catalogue of Brooklyn Museum, 1923, we find the following:

"David Burliuk was born July 9, 1882, at Kharkov. Entered the Kazan School of Fine Arts in 1898. Studied later at Odessa, at Munich Academy, and in Paris under Cormon. Since 1909 a member of the Bubnovy Valyet, and the Moscow cubo-futurist group. Left Moscow for the Ural and Siberia in 1918. Travelled and painted in Japan and the Southern Pacific, 1920-1922. Arrived in America from Kobe, September, 1922".

In the Modern Art, 1926, New York, we read: "In 1923 Dr. Christian Brinton and Mr. Fox Director of the Brooklyn Museum organized an exhibition of 44 of his canvases at the Museum. In 1924

David Burliuk

FORNARO.

(caricature)

By FORNARO.

he became a member of the Societe Anonyme, which organized his second important exhibition in New York. Few men have so long and constantly worked for modernism as Burliuk".

KATHERINE S. DREIER
President — Societe Anonyme Inc.
Museum of Modern Art.

IVAN NARODNY, the American Magazine of Art, March, 1928, (page 144) "Burliuk has been called the Father of Russian Cubo-Futurism, but a more correct label would have been, the Pioneer of Modern Primitivism, or the Father of Kinetic Symbolism. The intrinsic value of his paintings will increase with the passing of time, and some day — a generation hence — people will speak of Burliuk's paintings as unusual relics of a pioneer spirit".

On the Beach in Gloucester, Mass.
(Drawing) By DAVID BURLIUK.

Colonial House.

By DAVID BURLIUK.

(Drawing).

In the Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 11, 1928,

GRACE V. KELLEY writes:

"The 'Blue Alcove' at the Eastman-Bolton Gallery is the scene of one of the most important exhibitions which has come to Cleveland lately. This is of paintings by David Burliuk who organized one of the group of pioneers of New Art, along with Picasso, Derrain, Alezander Blazys and the rest of the brilliant list... Burliuk has an

unlimited vocabulary for his paintings, and words to put across any idea he may have in mind. When he chooses to be gracious to nature, no one has the art to be more gracious, than he... As a consequence, a picture by him is always complete and convincing...

Burliuk is one of those giants of the Art World, who find it possible to excel in a number of the Arts, and he has every right under the sun to call himself painter, poet, orator, actor and show-man".

Old Tree in New England.

By DAVID BURLIUK.

(Drawing).

CHRISTIAN BRINTON,

Special Deputy for Foreign Art, Sesqui-
Centennial International Exposition,
1926, Phila.

In "Modern Art of the Sesqui-
Centennial Exhibition".

"Outside Paris the chief foci of co-ordinated effort were Moscow, Milan and Munich. Stimulated through the patronage of current French Art by such enlightened collectors as Shukhin and Morosov, the Russians forged rapidly to the front.

Though one notes at the outset the customary crop of Cezannists, the most significant figures are those of the Primitives — Goncharova, Larionov, Manievich, Burliuk, and the sculptor Konenkov, who grafted modernism upon the fruitful tree of native inspiration, the sturdy, colourful archaism of peasant fantasy".

Old Mansion. (Drawing).
By DAVID BURLIUK.

Rockport, Mass.
(In Frederick Starr Collection).
By DAVID BURLIUK.

Address of New York Studio:
David Burliuk, 2116 Harrison Ave., — Tel. Sedgwick 1124.