The Hold-Up

The Hold-Up
The Hold-Up

The Hold-Up

Datenot dated
Artist (American artist, 1895–1961)
Illustration CitationDate and place of publication not identified
MediumInk and wash on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 12 × 13 in. (30.5 × 33 cm)
sheet: 13 3/4 × 15 7/16 in. (34.9 × 39.2 cm)
frame: 20 3/8 × 22 3/8 × 7/8 in. (51.8 × 56.8 × 2.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
Object number1978-220
On View
On view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextSon of W. F. Burbank, founder of the Oakland (CA) Tribune, Addison Burbank had his early career in San Francisco and by 1917 was general manager of a newspaper in Winston-Salem, NC.

Following art study in Europe, he exhibited his paintings in New York, and, in 1933, a prize-winning mural at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago. Burbank illustrated for many national magazines and newspapers. By the 1950s he was in New York City where he remained until his death in October 1961.