Olive Burr183230 x 24 1/4 " (76.2 x 61.6 cm)
Frame: 36 1/8 x 30 x 2 " (91.8 x 76.2 x 5.1 cm)Oil on canvas; original split baluster frame with bronze powder stencilingGift of Marilyn and Bob Gellert2017.19.101561916093Joel ParksPaintingsThe American Folk Art Museum believes this work to be in the public domain.United StatesNew YorkPaintings
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgLittle is known about Joel Parks, a painter living in Tioga County, New York State. He may have been born in England and was working in western counties of New York by the 1830s. Parks is best known for the posthumous portrait of Nicholas Catlin (attributed) of Tioga, New York, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art that includes a large floral arrangement. A similar floral arrangement appears in a portrait of Catharine J. Rogers, painted in 1837. A penciled note (copied from an original inscription that was lost due to relining) indicates that this portrait was painted by Joel Parks and depicts Olive Burr (1782–1870) of Onondaga County, New York. She was the daughter of Judge Ozias Burr and Olive Atwell Burr. She is buried in Delphi Falls Baptist Church Cemetery.18321832 2017 19 1
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.orgLittle is known about Joel Parks, a painter living in Tioga County, New York State. He may have been born in England and was working in western counties of New York by the 1830s. Parks is best known for the posthumous portrait of Nicholas Catlin (attributed) of Tioga, New York, in the collection of the National Gallery of Art that includes a large floral arrangement. A similar floral arrangement appears in a portrait of Catharine J. Rogers, painted in 1837. A penciled note (copied from an original inscription that was lost due to relining) indicates that this portrait was painted by Joel Parks and depicts Olive Burr (1782–1870) of Onondaga County, New York. She was the daughter of Judge Ozias Burr and Olive Atwell Burr. She is buried in Delphi Falls Baptist Church Cemetery.