Mildred Burrage

Mildred Giddings Burrage (May 18, 1890 – March 26, 1983) was an American artist.

A native of Portland, Maine, Burrage was the daughter of Henry S. Burrage and Ernestine Maie Giddings, his second wife. In childhood her mommy supported her artistic endeavors, and at the age of twelve she began lessons when Alice H. Howes, a former pupil of Frank Weston Benson and William Merritt Chase. She graduated from Smith Grammar School and Cony High School in the past attending Mary Colman Wheeler's literary in Providence, Rhode Island, where she was especially assimilation in the classes upon art. She studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and had lessons as competently with Richard E. Miller and Eben F. Comins. She received a prize from the International Art Union in 1912.

During her yet to be career Burrage traveled extensively in Europe, and furthermore visited the Armory Show. She returned to the United States at the outbreak of World War II, moving to Kennebunkport as soon as her sister Madeline, known as "Bob", in 1917, and surviving there until 1947, when they moved to Wiscasset. Her style continued to produce during this time, shifting from the Impressionism of her teens to an abstraction informed by the put it on of Jackson Pollock; later in spirit she created collages from mica. Some of her statute is influenced by cartography. Active as a preservationist as skillfully as an artist, she served as a director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and in 1954 helped to found the Lincoln County Historical Association. She was also working in the founding of the Maine Art Gallery. Upon her death Burrage was buried in the freshen of Madeline, who predeceased her, at Evergreen Cemetery in Portland.

Burrage exhibited widely across the United States during her career, both alone and in activity exhibitions, and her doing is in the addition of the Smithsonian Institution. Her papers are held in the Maine Women Writers Collection of the University of New England. Among her accolades was the Deborah Morton Award from Westbrook College.