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1900 Baton Rouge, Louisiana - 1995. Known for: Garden themed ceramics, figurines, landscape design, cotton plantation paintings.
Burden's gardens, including those at Windrush, his family home, showcase Steele Burden's signature design style, which emphasized the creation of garden rooms and used sculpture and plantings to draw... Read full biography
Burden's gardens, including those at Windrush, his family home, showcase Steele Burden's signature design style, which emphasized the creation of garden rooms and used sculpture and plantings to draw the eye. Born in Louisiana, Ollie Brice Steele Burden, known as Steele, grew up in Baton Rouge... Read full biography
Burden's gardens, including those at Windrush, his family home, showcase Steele Burden's signature design style, which emphasized the creation of garden rooms and used sculpture and plantings to draw the eye. Born in Louisiana, Ollie Brice Steele Burden, known as Steele, grew up in Baton Rouge while spending weekends on his family’s 600-acre farm, Windrush Plantation. As an adult, Burden moved onto the Windrush property permanently. There, inspired by travels in Europe, he began his first... Read full biography
Burden's gardens, including those at Windrush, his family home, showcase Steele Burden's signature design style, which emphasized the creation of garden rooms and used sculpture and plantings to draw the eye. Born in Louisiana, Ollie Brice Steele Burden, known as Steele, grew up in Baton Rouge while spending weekends on his family’s 600-acre farm, Windrush Plantation. As an adult, Burden moved onto the Windrush property permanently. There, inspired by travels in Europe, he began his first experiments with garden design, creating a small formal garden in the 1920s. Although he never earned a degree in landscape architecture, Burden took courses at Louisiana State University before working for the City of Baton Rouge. In the 1920s, he... Read full biography
Burden's gardens, including those at Windrush, his family home, showcase Steele Burden's signature design style, which emphasized the creation of garden rooms and used sculpture and plantings to draw the eye. Born in Louisiana, Ollie Brice Steele Burden, known as Steele, grew up in Baton Rouge while spending weekends on his family’s 600-acre farm, Windrush Plantation. As an adult, Burden moved onto the Windrush property permanently. There, inspired by travels in Europe, he began his first experiments with garden design, creating a small formal garden in the 1920s. Although he never earned a degree in landscape architecture, Burden took courses at Louisiana State University before working for the City of Baton Rouge. In the 1920s, he designed the plantings for City Park, and later became its Superintendent. In 1930, he became landscape architect for Louisiana State Universi... Read full biography
Steele (Ollie Brice) Burden - Artist Info
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Keywords (16)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Landscape Design
- •Painting, Fine Art
- •Pottery Decoration, Design, Figurines
Art Media
Art Subject
- •American South Slaves, Cotton Genre, Plantations
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Garden Sculpture
- •Trained as Professional Architect