#Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins)

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de Young Museum - San Francisco, CA

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‘Boy Party’, c.1954 by Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins) (1923-2004). De Young Museum, San Francisco, oil on wood panel.

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 440

Jess: To and From the Printed Page

Ingrid Schaffner

Independent Curators International 2007

Jess Collins, simply known as Jess, was born Burgess Franklin Collins in Long Beach, California, in 1923. This book, published to accompany a traveling exhibition of the artist’s work in 2007-2009, focuses on the intricately imaginative collages and drawings that he created from the 1950s to the 1990s. Jess’s work is difficult to summarize in a short paragraph. For one thing, it changed a great deal. For example, in 1957, he created a 4-page collage book titled “Tricky Cad: Case IV,” a parody of Dick Tracy comic strips made entirely of collaged Dick Tracy comics. In 1964, he painted “Petals in Paint,” a still life of flowers in a vase that resembles something Van Gogh might have painted. Mostly, however, he is best known for his collages, which owe a debt to the Dadaist collages of Max Ernst. So, while difficult to categorize, what ultimately develops is a picture of a highly idiosyncratic and restless artist.

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Boy party (1954), Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins)

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‘Boy Party’, c.1954 by Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins) (1923-2004). De Young Museum, San Francisco, oil on wood panel.

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Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins), If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Sink, 1962, oil on canvas, 96.5 x 142.2 cm (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco) © estate of the artist

[pwlanier]

The Enamord Mage: Translation #6

Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins)

1965

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco

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(via Wherein the huge sickness of lovely Pauline and the first smells of imminent molasses, tenth image in the book The Better Dream House (White Rabbit Press, 1968) - Jess (Burgess Franklin Collins), Joseph Dunn, White Rabbit Press | FAMSF Explore the Art)

Burgess Franklin Collins