Frank Gelett Burgess (1866-01-30)January 30, 1866 Boston, Massachusetts, US
Died
September 18, 1951(1951-09-18) (aged 85) Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, US
Occupation
Novelist, Engineer
Literary movement
West Coast Response to the European Decadent movement
Notable works
The Purple Cow, The Wild Men of Paris
Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, and association with The Crowd literary group. He is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow," and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He was the illustrator of the Goops murals, in Coppa's restaurant, in the Montgomery Block and author of the popular Goops books. Burgess coined the term "blurb."
Frank GelettBurgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the...
"Purple Cow" is a short nonsense poem by American writer GelettBurgess. It was first published in 1895. I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see...
the Royal Cadet. The impish American writer and Bohemian Club member GelettBurgess, who coined the word blurb, supplied this description of the amorphous...
illustrated in GelettBurgess, "The Wild Men of Paris", The Architectural Record, May 1910, New York. List of works by Henri Matisse GelettBurgess, "The Wild...
published five books. Dream Big, Little Pig!, for which she received the GelettBurgess Children's Book Award, appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list...
critic, poet, author and humorist GelettBurgess. The characters debuted, conceptually, in the illustrations of Burgess' publication The Lark, in the late...
second edition. The word blurb was coined in 1906 by American humorist GelettBurgess (1866–1951). The October 1906 first edition of his short book Are You...
called it "a demented caricature of a portrait," and in 1910 the critic GelettBurgess wrote that The Green Stripe was Matisse's "punishment" of Amélie that...
purely nonsensical words. In 1914, humorist GelettBurgess published a dictionary of original neologisms, Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You...
Aurelius E. Buckingham Giorgi Khachidze Yes Charles Bundschu Frank GelettBurgess No Hugh M. Burke Honorary Life George H. W. Bush Hillbillies No Norton...
at the Museum of Modern Art Musée Matisse Nice The nude in Matisse GelettBurgess, "The Wild Men of Paris, Matisse, Picasso and Les Fauves", Architectural...
issue of The New York Times. This article was published a year after GelettBurgess' The Wild Men of Paris, and two years prior to the Armory Show, which...
Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2004) GelettBurgess, "The Wild Men of Paris: Matisse, Picasso and Les Fauves", Architectural...
1893-1894 by "a lynch party of self-professed art lovers" including GelettBurgess (who was subsequently fired from his job at University of California...
(1924–2002) David Budbill (born 1940) Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) GelettBurgess (1866–1951) Julia de Burgos (1914–1953) Eudora Stone Bumstead (1860–1892)...
Swedish trotting driver and trainer. Goops, a 1900 book series by GelettBurgess Shoe Goo or Sportsman's Goop, a brand of waterproof seam-sealer Goop...
members of the Bohemian Club during this time included Ambrose Bierce, GelettBurgess, Allan Dunn, John Muir, Frank Norris,[citation needed] and Herman George...
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