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FYI, colleagues… From: mdusenbury@xxxxxxxxxx
(Mary Dusenbury) Dorothy K. Burnham died
peacefully in her sleep on Saturday, October 23, 2004. Born in 1911, Burnham joined
the staff of the 1929 as a "second
assistant draftsman" and became its first curator of textiles in 1939. Her
many carefully researched and beautifully presented books, monographs and
exhibition catalogues explored Canadian textile arts and provided research models
for several generations of textile scholars who followed in her footsteps. She
was known to many of us for her Cut my Cote (1973), Keep me Warm One Night:
Early Handweaving in A Textile Terminology (1980)
and many other books, monographs, and exhibition catalogues on Canadian textile
arts, some broad in scope, others sharply focused. After her retirement from
ROM in 1977, she continued to work on special research projects for that museum
and for the National Gallery of Canada, the provincial In 1998 Burham received an
honorary doctorate from Life slowly opened up in
front of me, leading me on to a path where I was fortunate enough to find a way
of making a living that I was good at, and, even more importantly, that I
thoroughly enjoyed ......my wish for you is that in spite of all the cutbacks
and complications of the present time, you will find a joyous path to follow. --- |