Paul Burlin (1886-1969)

After participating as one of the youngest exhibitors in the 1913 Armory Show, New York artist Paul Burlin moved to the Southwest. His subsequent work, which displays strong Cubist characteristics and a Fauvist-influenced palette, was deeply affected by his experience of the desert and his encounter with the color and geometry of Native American art.

Over the next several decades, Burlin’s semi-abstract landscapes and portraits became less concerned with subject matter and increasingly expressive in style. During the 1940s, Burlin became preoccupied with themes of spirit and mythology. In the 1950s and 1960s, Burlin’s failing eye-sight, combined with his passion for primitive colors and mythology and his fascination with painting as an act of expression and creation, caused him to move into almost exclusively abstract work. These large-scale abstract paintings from the last decades of Burlin’s life are filled with distortion and cacophony, youth and vitality.

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