John Burton Harter - Artist Info

About John Burton Harter

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    JOHN BURTON HARTER, American, 1940-2002.

    John Burton Harter, known to his friends as Burt, was born in Jackson, Mississippi on October 7, 1940. The son of a surgeon and a journalist, he grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.

    He studied at the University of Louisville, Kentucky; Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Hanover College, Indiana. Post-graduate studies led Harter on a global journey to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the prestigious Hebrew University in Jerusalem; the University of Vienna in Austria and Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

    Moving in the 1960s to New Orleans, Harter, an art historian, made his career in the museum world, starting at ...

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