Night Heron, 2003

Linda Burgess

Oil on silk and rice paper

H. 14; W. 11" unframed
H. 17½; W. 13½" framed

About the Artist

"Having grown up the tropics, buttressed between the Atlantic and the Everglades, I have long been enamored by the luminous light, radiant colors, and unique fauna that emanates from our fragile wetlands. Night Heron standing solitary in the shallows, its feathers aglow with reflective light, addresses these qualities and my infatuation in a single, iconic image." - Linda Burgess

Linda Burgess is an artist and writer whose work can be found in the collections of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Mint Museum of Art, The Polaroid International Collection, Zimmerli Museum of Art, and McGraw-Hill Publishing, among others. In addition to writing about art for Art & Antiques, ARTnews, and The Washington Review, she is the author of Mount Vernon's Magnificent Menagerie and the Very Mysterious Guest, a children's book about George Washington's animals, illustrated by her daughter and artist, Maggie Dunlap.

Burgess received a BA in Art and Music from Appalachian State University, and an MFA in painting from Rutgers University, where she studied with Leon Golub. As an Associate Professor of Art, she taught Painting at Birmingham-Southern College, and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as an Adjunct Professor with the University of New Haven.

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