Mary Kirkwood
Mary Kirkwood (December 21, 1904 – June 17, 1995) was an American artist and a professor at the University of Idaho from 1930 to 1970. Kirkwood earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana, and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, and completed graduate work at the Royal Art School in Stockholm, Sweden and the College of Art Study Abroad in Paris. The same year, she began teaching at the University of Idaho as a professor of painting and history of painting, and remained with the university for 40 years, until retiring in 1970.
Also recorded as Mary Burnette Kirkwood
Mary Kirkwood
- Name
- Mary Burnett Kirkwood
- Birth Name
- Mary Burnett
- Born
- December 21, 1904
- Birthplace
- Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
- Died
- 17 June 1995
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- Modern
- Full name
- Mary Burnett.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- painter and teacher.
- Fields
- painting.
- Movements
- modern art.
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Kirkwood is credited with introducing University of Idaho students to modernist techniques and concepts. Her work is held in the collection of the University of Idaho and Portland Art Museum.
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• Name — Mary Burnett Kirkwood • Birth Name — Mary Burnett • Born — December 21, 1904 • Birthplace — Hillsboro, Oregon, United States • Died — 17 June 1995 • Field — Painting • Movement — Modern
Background
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Mary Kirkwood was born in Hillsboro, Oregon, on December 21, 1904, at the home of her grandparents. Her family lived in Syracuse, New York, Mexico, and Tucson, Arizona before settling in Missoula, Montana, when she was four years old. Kirkwood remained in Missoula and graduated from the University of Montana in 1926. Four years later, in 1930, she earned her master of fine arts degree from the University of Oregon, where she was a member of Pi Lambda Delta.
Agricultural Science Building Mural
Agricultural Science Building Mural
"...nothing could deter Assistant Professor Mary Kirkwood of Art as she sat on a scaffold day after day, painting a mural in the building's lobby. The mural depicted the State's varied types of agriculture, from wheat farming on the rolling Palouse Hills to row-cropping on the level, irrigated Snake River Plain."
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Syracuse, New York and Mexico.
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Hillsboro.
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Moscow.
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A number of her commissioned portraits hang at the University of Idaho. A 1980 painting titled Kate is in the collections at the Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon. There is a scholarship in her name at the University of Idaho. The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon retains a 1930 painting in its archives of Adam and Eve, produced as part of Kirkwood's MFA degree.
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- 1.Mary Burnett Kirkwood, 90, well-known painter. Lewiston Morning Tribune. June 27, 1995.
- 2.Moscow Artist's Legacy Lives in Work, Students. Moscow-Pullman Daily News. June 29, 1995.
- 3.Newby, Rick. The Rocky Mountain Region: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures. Greenwood. 2004. 978-0313328176.
- 4.Benton, Mary Clay. 1928 Oregana. University of Oregon Special Collections & University Archives, Ld4368 .O7 1928. University of Oregon. June 1928.
- 5.Kate. www.portlandartmuseum.us.
- 6.Financial Aid & Scholarships. College & Department University of Idaho Scholarships & Financial Aid.
- 7.Gibbs, Rafe. Beacon for Mountain and Plain. Caxton Printers. 324. 1962.
- 8.Trenton, Patricia. Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945. University of California Press. 1995. 978-0520202030.
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