Biografie von Margaret Taylor Goss BURROUGHS (1917-2010)

Birth place: St. Rose Parish, LA

Addresses: Chicago

Profession: Lithographer, screenprinter, painter, teacher, craftsperson

Studied: Chicago Teachers College; AIC; Columbia Univ.; Northwestern Univ.; Mexico City

Exhibited: Illinois State Univ.; Winston-Salem Teachers' College; Chicago Teachers College, 1936 (prize); LOC, 1939,1945; Am. Expo, Chicago, 1940; South Side Community AC, Chicago, 1941, 1945; McMillen Gals., NYC, 1941; SFMA, 1945; AIC, 1943; Atlanta Univ., 1942-44 (prize), 1945; Detroit Negro Congress, 1946; San Francisco Civic Mus., 1949; Illinois State Fair, 1949; Market Place Gallery, NYC, 1950; Kenosha (WI) Mus., 1953; Mexico City, 1955; Hull House, Chicago, 1955; Howard Univ., 1961; Xavier Univ., 1963; Int. Kook Art Exhib., Leipzig, Germany, 1965; Poland, 1965; House of Friendship, Moscow, 1967; Geneva, IL, 1969; Ball State Teachers College, 1969; Elmhurst (IL) College, 1970.

Member: Nat. Conference Artists; Art Lg. Chicago; South Side Community AC, Chicago, 1940-46.

Work: Howard Univ.; Alabama State Normal; Atlanta Univ.; DuSable Mus. African-Am. Hist., Chicago; Johnson Pub. Co.; Oakland (CA) Mus.; Barnett Aden Gal.

Comments: Founder: Mus. Negro History, Chicago. Served on State of Illinois Centennial of Emancipation Committee, 1963; Am. Forum of African Studies Program, 1968; staff, Am. Forum for Int. Study at Univ. of Ghana, 1969; staff, Am. Forum for Int. Study, Univ. of West Indies, Jamaica, 1970; Chicago Council of Foreign Relations, 1970; DuSable Mus. of African Am. Hist.; Gov. Commission of the Financing of the Arts in the State of Illinois, 1971.

Sources: WW47; Cederholm, Afro-American Artists.