Clara Miller Burd

Clara Miller Burd (17 May 1873 – 11 November 1933) was an American stained glass designer and children's book and magazine cover illustrator.

Early life

Burd was born on 17 May 1873 in New York City, United States of America to Charles Edgar Burd and Amelia Roe Burd of Patchogue, New York. She was educated at Chase School and the National Academy of Design in New York.[1] In 1898, she traveled to Paris, France to continue her art education[2] where she became a student of Gustave-Claude-Etienne Courtois at the Académie Colarossi.[1]

Career

After returning from France, Burd worked as a stained glass designer at the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company in New York.[3] She also worked at the J&R Lamb Studios as well as at the Church Glass and Decorating Company.

Notable designs include :

• St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Highland Park, Pittsburgh. The East and West transept windows. (Completed while employed with the Church Glass and Decorating Company)[4]
• First Church of Christ, Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The memorial window to Dr. William Davis titled Angels of Life and Death[5] (Independent design.[6])
• West End Collegiate Church, New York City, New York. The East transept window to the memory of Anna Van Nostrand titled Morning cometh and the shadows flee away - a 16 foot high full length image of Christ standing to the side with his hand raised to the rising sun with two kneeling angels at the base of the window on either side.[7][5](Independent design.)[6]
• Woodlawn Cemetery, New York. Mausoleum of William Bradley. Window titled Memory
• Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica, New York. Mausoleum of James S. Sherman. Vice-President. Memorial window of Easter lilies with a background of antique ruby glass.
• Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. Memorial window of river flowing through a lily bed, with a background of pink sky and a descending dove.
• Trinity Episcopal Church, Roslyn, Long Island, New York. Windows presented by Mr Clarence H. Mackay. (Made by Church Glass and Decorating Company.)[5][8][9]
• St Paul's Episcopal Church in Englewood, NJ ("The Last Supper" reredos, signed)

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  Stained glass window design for two windows for the First Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts titled Angels of Life and Death
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  Stained glass window design for Collegiate Church, New York City titled The morning cometh and the shadows flee away
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  Mausoleum stained glass window design to the memory of James S. Sherman, Vice-President
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  Mausoleum stained glass window design
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  A stained glass window design titled Annunciations

In addition to working with the stained glass art firms Burd also designed independently. She registered the copyright in some of her stained glass designs[10] and her illustrations[11]

As well as her stained glass window design work, Burd also illustrated of children's books and magazine covers. She signed her work C M Burd or CMB.

Initials of the artist Clara Miller Burd

Signature of the artist Clara Miller Burd

Illustrations

The books and magazines she illustrated include:

• Tennyson, Alfred. In Memoriam. Surgis & Walton Co., New York, 1909[12]
• Stall, Sylvanus. With the children on Sundays, through eye-gate, and ear-gate into the city of child-soul. The Uplift Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1911[13]
• Olcott, Frances Jenkins. Good Stories for Great Holidays Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914
• Marks, Jeannette. The Children in the Wood Stories. Milton Bradley, Springfield, 1919
• Bailey, Carolyn Sherwood. Stories of great adventures (adapted from the classics), Milton Bradley, Springfield, 1919
• Cover illustration for Modern Priscilla August 1922[14]
• Spyri, Johanna. Heidi. The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, 1924
• Dodge, Mary Mapes. Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, 1925
• Alcott, Louisa May. Jo's Boys. Little, Brown & Co., 1925
• Lawrence, Josephine. Next door neighbors. Cupples & Leon, New York, 1926
• Yonge, Charlotte M. A Book of Golden Deeds. Macmillan Co., 1927
• Alcott, Louisa May. An Old Fashioned Girl. The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, 1928
• Alcott, Louisa May. Little men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's boys. The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, 1928
• Edgeworth, Maria. Simple Susan and Other Tales. Macmillan Co., New York, 1929
• Dickens, Charles. Dickens' stories about children, retold and with an introduction by Elizabeth Lodor Merchant. The John C. Winston Company, Philadelphia, circa 1929

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  Stones Being Prepared for a Great Building by C M Burd
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  The Christmas Tree by C M Burd
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  The Returning Prodigal by C M Burd
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  Behold a Sower went Forth to Sow by C M Burd
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  Wayside Weeds and Garden Flowers by C M Burd
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  Seeing Ourselves in the Looking-Glass of Gods Law by C M Burd

Exhibitions and recognition

Her work has been exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1900, the annual exhibition of the American Water Color Society, New York in 1900,[15] the annual exhibition of the Architectural League of New York in 1905,[16] and The Whitney Museum of American Art in 1984[17]

She lived in Montclair, New York until her death on 11 November 1933 and was buried in Patchogue's Cedar Grove Cemetery.[18]

References

1. Boston Public Library (1980). The Artist & The Child: Exhibition of Children's Books and Original Illustrations from the John D. Merriam Collection. Boston: Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston. p. 21. ISBN 0890730652. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
2. Waldrep, Mary Carolyn (2012). Women Illustrators of the Golden Age. Courier Corporation. p. 99. ISBN 0486131882. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
3. Tannler, Albert M. "Architectural Glass in Pittsburgh, Series 2: Tiffany Windows in Western Pennsylvania". Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
4. Tannler, Albert M. "Glass Artists and Sites". Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
5. Dorr, Charles H. (1914). "The Art of Making a Stained Glass Window with Notes on the Work of Clara M. Burd". Architectural Record. XXXV (2): 162–169. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
6. Copyright Office. Catalogue of Copyright Entries Part 4, New Series, Volume 8. Washington: Library of Congress. p. 107. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
7. "Postings: $1 Million Window Project at West End Collegiate Church; Conserving Stained Glass". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
8. Architectural Record (September 1906), Church Glass and Decorating Company advertisement.
9. Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House (2008), Richard Guy Wilson, p. 127.
10. Copyright Office (1913). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Part 4 New Series, Volume 7 For the year 1912. Library of Congress. p. 4. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
11. Copyright Office (1917). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Part 4 New Series, Volume 12, No. 1 For the year 1917. Washington: Library of Congress. p. 72. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
12. Tennyson, Alfred (1909). In memoriam. New York: Sturgis & Walton. p. 222. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
13. Stall, Sylvanus (1911). With the Children on Sundays Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul. Philadelphia: The Uplift Publishing Company. p. 352. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
14. Schiller, Joyce K. "Seaside Fun". Norman Rockwell Museum. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
15. Illustrated Catalogue of the thirty-third annual exhibition of the American Water Color Society. New York: The Knickerbocker Press. 1900. p. 6. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
16. Catalog of the Twentieth Annual Exhibition of the Architectural League of New York. New York: Architectural League of New York. 1905. pp. 29, 388. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
17. Whitney Museum of Art (1984). The Feminine Gaze, women depicted by women, 1900-1930 : Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, September 7 - October 31, 1984. New York: Whitney Museum of Art. pp. 22. Retrieved 5 February 2017.
18. "Clara M Burd". Find a Grave. Retrieved 6 February 2017.

External links

• Works by Clara Miller Burd at Project Gutenberg
• C. M. Burd at Library of Congress Authorities, with 10 catalog records