Eleanor Burnette

1944   Born in Chicago IL
2020  Died in Princeton, NJ
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BIOGRAPHY

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eleanor burnette african american painter

Self Portrait
30 x 15 oil unframed
c. 1995

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Below Green Street
30 x 23 oil unframed
c. 1985

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Stormfield III
14 x 15  oil  unframed
d. 2005

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Primary Structure III
22 x 30  oil  unframed
c. 2000

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Middle Passage Series
15 x 30  oil and sculpture  unframed
c. 2005

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Stormfield
15 x 15  oil  unframed
d. 2005

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Unlikely Saints (2)
14 x 11  acrylic  framed
d. 1998

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Unlikely Saints (1)
14 x 11 acrylic  framed
d. 1998

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Unlikely Saints (5)
14 x 11  acrylic  framed
d. 1998

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Unlikely Saints (floating)
14 x 11  acrylic  framed
d. 1998

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Unlikely Saints (4)
14 x 11  acrylic  framed
d. 1998

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Unlikely Saints (6)
14 x 11  acrylic  framed
d. 1998

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Unlikely Saints (3)
14 x 11  acrylic  framed
d. 2000

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Primary Structures II
22 x 30  oil  unframed
c. 2000

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Middle Passage Series
19 x 13  oil and sculpture  framed
c. 2005

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Under the Sun
11 x 10  acrylic  unframed
c. 2002

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Middle Passage Series
19 x 19  oil and sculpture  unframed
c. 2005

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Middle Passage Series
11 x 14  oil and sculpture  unframed
c. 2005

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Middle Passage Series
11 x 10  oiland sculpture  unframed
c. 2005

eleanor burnette african amrican artist

Middle Passage Series
13 x 19  oil and sculpture framed
c. 2005

ELEANOR BURNETTE  was an African American artist born 1944 in Chicago.  She earned a BA in Fine Art from Chicago State University (1976)  Burnette moved to Princeton, NJ in 1978.  She attended the New School with Chaim Gross and had a 2-year apprenticeship at Johnson Atelier where she learned mold making and bronze casting (1978-80).  Eleanore Burnette spent three years In RI at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design).  She Exhibited at Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI in group shows along with Chuck Close and Robert Motherwell.   And finally, she earned a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center.
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Burnette's final series was the Middle Passage (slave ships and slavery trade).  It is a combination of sculpture and painting.  She created individual figures by hand and grouped them in lines to mimic chained Africans in the holds of ships and the slavery auctions.  At her last exhibition of the Middle Passage Series before she died, Maya Angelou purchased “White Seas, Less Light”.  Eleanor Burnette died in Princeton in 2020.
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