Redfaced Queen
Paint on board
24 x 24 inches
1995
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Richard Brooks, Pendleton, South Carolina 1995
Redfaced King
Paint on board
24 x 24 inches
1995
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Richard Brooks, Pendleton, South Carolina 1995
Three Kings
Paint on board
24 x 48 inches
1995
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Richard Brooks, Pendleton, South Carolina 1995
African Tribesman
Paint on board
48 x 24 inches
1995
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Richard Brooks, Pendleton, South Carolina 1995
Tiger Cat and Two Kings
Paint and pinecone on board
11 1/2 x 60 inches
1995
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Richard Brooks, Pendleton, South Carolina 1995
Black Turtle Shell Mask
Paint on turtle shell
11 1/2 x 14 inches
1980
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Richard Brooks, Pendleton, South Carolina 1995
Turtle Shell Mask
Paint on turtle shell
11 1/2 x 14 inches apx
1980
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Anne Smith, Maydon, South Carolina 1994
Red Turtle Shell Mask
Paint on turtle shell
13 x 12 inches
1980
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Richard Brooks, Pendleton, South Carolina 1995
Green Faced Queen with Maids
Paint on board
24 x 24
1995
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Richard Brooks, Pendleton, South Carolina 1995
Pink Faced Queen
Paint on board
24 x 24 inches
1995
Signed
Provenance: Purchased from Richard Brooks, Pendleton, South Carolina 1995
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1944, Richard Burnside moved to South Carolina when he was a child. He has held various jobs throughout his life, ranging from store clerk to chef. He married twice, for brief periods, and has two children from each marriage. He now lives in Pendleton, South Carolina.
Burnside likes to create an Africanized mythology from biblical stories, folktales, and even nursery rhymes. The works’ titles often identify the subjects as kings, queens, and priests. His paintings are stylized interpretations of things he has seen, from works of art to objects of daily life. He personalizes what he sees in much the same manner that Mose Tolliver creates fanciful creatures from ordinary print sources. Most of Burnside’s works incorporate a group of independent but related forms, each with heavy outlines, dot patterns, and bright colors against a solid background. Generally included in the composition are numerous mask-like faces.
By: Katherine Bell Douglas
Additional Links:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Self Taught Folk Art
