Ukiah Gets Gift From Noted Artist
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Private Collection
Harvard, IL

From the Julsen Collection

"Ukiah Public Library and Ukiah Union High School are indebted to E. A. Burbank, well known American painter, for two drawings and a print of President Roosevelt, recently received as a gift from the artist. These will he framed and hung at the library and school. The drawings are "A Scene from Chinatown" and "An Old Wharf at Petaluma," of beautiful workmanship and detail.

Burbank has painted the Indian from 128 different tribes. In this work he visited every county in California finding 52 different tribes of Indians in California. The artist was in Mendocino county in 1900 produced 80 oil paintings in this neighborhood.

The Newberry Library, Chicago, has hundreds of Burbank's drawings, and these were all copied for the Huntington Library at Pasadena. Fifty-two of the oil portraits have been reproduced in colors, and the Smithsonian in Washington. D. C. has a full set; also, the Boston Museum, British Museum in London; and the Berlin Museum, Germany. John L. Sargent, late of London, had a colored print of an Apache in his studio.

Burbank won the first Yerkes prize with a drawing of a colored boy playing a banjo. This prize was awarded in Chicago in 1893. To reproduce in lithograph , American newspapers bought a million copies of the "American Beauty," an oil painting of a colored boy smelling a rose."