Print in black ink of a group of mostly dark-skinned children wearing dress clothes and cone-shaped party hats, gathered around a birthday cake. A girl at center smiles brightly while a boy at the table behind her looks glum. A woman behind the table moves to cut the cake as another looks on.

Birthday Party

1957

Margaret Burroughs American, 1915-2010

United States

In 1922, Margaret Burroughs moved with her family from Louisiana to Chicago’s South Side. She was instrumental in establishing the South Side Community Art Center, and in 1948 she completed her Master of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Art Institute. Soon after, she traveled to Mexico to study printmaking; there she was particularly influenced by the powerful graphic style of Leopoldo Méndez.

Linocut on cream wove paper

Prints and Drawings

African American artists

African Diaspora

SAIC Alumni and Faculty

Women artists