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BURNETT, Dorothy
- Born
- Vancouver, B.C., 1907
- Died
- Vancouver, B.C., 1992
- Biography synopsis
- Bookbinder in the modern genre Burnett didn't impose traditional, decorative patterns, heavily tooled. She produced th major part of her work in the 1930s and 1940s. After graduating from the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts in 1930, she completed post graduate studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and later studied with Herbert and Peter Fahey, renowned artists and bookbinders in San Francisco. On returning to Vancouver, she set up the Craft Centre Studio, with a friend and fellow artist, Frances Gatewood. She also worked out of her family home, accepting special orders for the fine binding of family bibles, commemorative books, albums, old volumes, and first editions. The Dorothy Burnett Bookbinding Tools collection, held at the University of British Columbia, includes 224 of Burnett's bookbinding tools and presses that range in age from 60 to 100 years old. IHer work was exhibited in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco among other places.
- Media used
- Bookbinding
- Education
- Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (VSDAA), ? - 1930
- California College of Arts and Crafts (Oakland)
- File & Archive locations
- University of British Columbia Archives
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- Decorative Arts: Dept. of Fine Arts, Division of Decorative Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, San Francisco, California: San Francisco Bay Exposition, 1939
- Dorothy Burnett Bookbinding Tools Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia, ?
http://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/dorothyburn - Amor, N. and N. R. Reid. Dorothy Burnett Bookbinder. Vancouver, B.C.: Alcuin Society, 2007
- Andrews, Susan. "Discoveries." Amphora 79 (Mar. 1990): 8-9
- Cintra. "Graduates in Art." ? 25 Apr. 1936
