 Efram L. Burk Associate Professor Fine and Applied Arts (617)333-2269 eburk0906@curry.edu
Efram Burk started teaching art history at Curry College in Fall 2006. In terms of research, he has focused on early twentieth-century American modernism, concentrating primarily on the printmaking activities of that period through exhibitions he has curated and scholarship. His articles include: “Printmaking as Autobiography: The Graphic Art of Marguerite Zorach,” Woman’s Art Journal, May 2004; “Assembling the ‘Primitive’: Max Weber’s Artist Book Primitives (1926),” SECAC Review, Fall 2003; “The Prints of William Zorach,” Print Quarterly, December 2002. His most recent exhibition was: “Broadening Horizons, Changing Viewpoints, Landscapes from the Burk Collection,” for the Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine in Gorham, from October 28-December 12, 2004. He is currently completing a book entitled Clever Fresno Girl: The Travel Writings of Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1908-1915). In Summer 2008, he will guest curate an exhibition on the prints of William and Marguerite Zorach at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine.
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