The Artist Dick Burg

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Spectacular Floral

Floral - 16x20, framed, oil, Masonite, signed

Courtesy of Brian and Heather Hughes

Old Barn

#30 Old Barn - 18x24, framed, oil, Masonite, signed

Courtesy of Brian and Heather Hughes

I was informed by Shirley’s daughter Jessica that this painting is called McKenzie Pass. The Pass is located 25 miles northwest of Bend Oregon, between the Three Sisters to the south and Mount Washington to the north. I’m thinking the scene it is at a lower elevation due to the type of trees, deciduous rather than evergreen pine.

McKenzie Pass – 24x30, framed, Masonite, oil, signed

Courtesy of Shirley Kelly Burg Estate

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Dick Burg at Mission San Juan Capistrano 1944

Meridian Iron Works

Located at 913 Meridian Avenue in South Pasadena, California, Meridian Iron Works c.1890 is now a museum, South Pasadena Historical Museum. The structure has a kind of false front typical of the frontier wild west. Back in the day this two story redwood building was a general store and as time went on it functioned as a hotel, ticket office, telegraph station, bicycle shop, chapel and a school. In1943 became a foundry know as Meridian Iron Works. San Gabriel is four miles to South Pasadena so Dick definitely was in close proximity of Meridian Iron Works and passed it frequently. Dick’s interpretation is maybe of the 1940s view, weathered and stoic. The building looks to be a work horse on Sunday waiting for Monday.

#20 Meridian Iron Works 16x20, framed, watercolor, signed

1906 Autocar Roadster

#3 1906 Autocar Roadster

The image is the similar in color scheme to Dick’s #30 1909 Stoddard Dayton but this earlier vehicle only has front seats and no windshield.

#3 1906 Autocar Roadster 12x16, framed, oil, signed Burg and D. Burg 1965 (on back)

Tree and Foothills

This watercolor was in the lot that was recovered from Shirley Kelly Burg in Oregon in 2022. It has the markings of a quick study.

Untitled Tree and foothills watercolor, unframed, unsigned