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Calvin Burnett

1921-2007

Works in the Collection

Chair
1955

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Sojourner Truth: I’ll Keep You Scratchin’
1964

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Man Shortage
1945

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Figure with Collage
1994

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Girl with Arm Raised
1962

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Biography

Calvin W. Burnett was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1921. He graduated from the Massachusetts School of Art in 1942 and received his M.F.A. from Boston University in 1960. He taught at a number of institutions in the northeastern United States, including the Massachusetts College of Art and the DeCordova Museum. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States in galleries and museums including the Smithsonian Institution and the Brooklyn Museum. The artist died in 2007 in Medway, Massachusetts.

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