Pauline Powell Burns, San Francisco, 1890-1902

Item Overview

Title

Pauline Powell Burns, San Francisco, 1890-1902

Alternative title

Female classical and operatic soloists

Date Created

[1890-1900]

Date

1890/1900

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Studio portrait of Pauline Powell Burns.
Pauline Powell Burns, also known as Pauline Powell, was the first African American artist to exhibit in California. She was also a pianist who gave recitals around the San Francisco Bay Area. Powell showed early musical and artistic talent, studied both piano and was largely self-taught as an artist. Although her artwork received "great praise," she was then better recognized as a pianist and is listed in a 1919 history of African-Americans in California solely as a piano teacher.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs

Names

Burns, Pauline Powell, 1872–1912

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American artists
African American musicians