{{Short description|American photographer (1931–2011)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2026}} {{Use American English|date=March 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Jerry Burchard | birth_name = Gerald Burchard | birth_date = December 1, 1931 | birth_place = Rochester, New York, U.S. | death_date = May 17, 2011 | death_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | education = California School of Fine Arts | occupation = Photographer, educator, curator }}
'''Gerald "Jerry" Burchard''' (December 1, 1931 – May 17, 2011)<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 18, 2011 |title=Jerry Burchard |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-francisco-chronicle-jerry-burchard/192764742/ |access-date=2026-03-06 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |pages=22 |type=obituary |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="Aukeman-2016">{{Cite book |last=Aukeman |first=Anastasia |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Welcome_to_Painterland/iN0kDQAAQBAJ |title=Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association |date=August 9, 2016 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-28945-1 |pages=72–73 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> was an American photographer, educator, and curator. He was a professor emeritus at San Francisco Art Institute.
== Life and career == Gerald "Jerry" Burchard was born on December 1, 1931, in Rochester, New York.<ref name="Nash-1995" /> From 1950 to 1952, he worked for Kodak, the photographic and film company.<ref name="Aukeman-2016" /> Burchard was enlisted in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1956, as a photographers mate and during this time he did photography for NATO in Naples, Italy.<ref name="Aukeman-2016" /><ref name="Nash-1995">{{Cite book |last=Nash |first=Steven A. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Facing_Eden/oV-kxyDHbysC |title=Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area |last2=Berkson |first2=Bill |author-link2=Bill Berkson |date=January 1, 1995 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-20363-1 |pages=189 |language=en}}</ref> His photo work was influenced by photojournalist Dorothea Lang.<ref name="Aukeman-2016" />
He attended the California School of Fine Arts (later part of San Francisco Art Institute) from 1956 to 1960, in order to study under Lang.<ref name="Aukeman-2016" /> While a student and documenting the era, Burchard took many portraits of San Francisco artists in the Rat Bastard Protective Association (RBPA), such as Bruce Conner, Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Carlos Villa, Wally Hedrick, Manuel Neri, and Art Grant.<ref name="Aukeman-2016" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Yau |first=John |date=May 14, 2017 |title=A Celebration of the Rat Bastards: Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, George Herms, Wally Hedrick, and Others |url=https://hyperallergic.com/rat-bastard-protective-association-susan-inglett-2017/ |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Schwartz |first=Stephen |date=December 8, 1995 |title=Obituary: Art Grant |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/OBITUARY-Art-Grant-3017866.php |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240507033946/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/OBITUARY-Art-Grant-3017866.php |archive-date=2024-05-07 |access-date=2026-03-06 |work=SFGate |language=en}}</ref>
In 1961, his photograph was removed from the Boston Arts Festival at the American Legion, for 'insulting' the American flag.<ref>{{Cite news |date=June 17, 1961 |title=Banned in Boston |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-banned-in-bos/192767114/ |access-date=2026-03-06 |work= San Francisco Examiner |pages=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=June 17, 1961 |title=Picture 'Insults' Flag |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner-picture-insu/192767002/ |access-date=2026-03-06 |work=San Francisco Examiner |pages=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Burchard started teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1966, and by 1969 he was the chair of the undergraduate photo department.<ref name="Aukeman-2016" /><ref name="Nash-1995" />
== Collections == Burchard's work can be found in museum collections, including at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jerry Burchard |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/jerry-burchard-658 |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) |language=en}}</ref> the Art Institute of Chicago;<ref>{{Cite web |date=1931 |title=Jerry Burchard |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/3643/jerry-burchard |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |language=en}}</ref> the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jerry Burchard |url=https://www.nortonsimon.org/art/browse-by-artist/artist/179/jerry-burchard |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Norton Simon Museum}}</ref> Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ping Yuen, 1979, Jerry Burchard |url=https://collections.artsmia.org/art/10898/ping-yuen-jerry-burchard |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA)}}</ref> the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jerry Burchard, American (New York: Rochester), born 1931 |url=https://emuseum.vassar.edu/people/1688/jerry-burchard |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center |publisher=Vassar College}}</ref> Princeton Art Museum in New Jersey;<ref>{{Cite web |title=New California Views |url=https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/17623 |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Princeton Art Museum}}</ref> the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Landweber/Artists - New California Views |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/262736 |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |language=en}}</ref> the Stanford University Libraries;<ref>{{Cite web |title=Author: Burchard, Jerry, 1931–2011 |url=https://spotlight.stanford.edu/su-photos/catalog?f%5Bauthor_person_facet%5D%5B%5D=Burchard,+Jerry,+1931-2011&f%5Bcollection_titles_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Stanford+historical+photograph+collection,+1887-circa+1996+(inclusive)&f%5Btopic_facet%5D%5B%5D=College+students&f%5Btopic_facet%5D%5B%5D=Social+life+and+customs&per_page=12&sort=pub_year_isi+desc,+title_sort+asc&view=masonry |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=Stanford University Libraries |publisher=Stanford University}}</ref> and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Burchard, Jerry |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/jerry-burchard/ |access-date=2026-03-06 |website=SFMOMA |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Exhibitions ==
* 1985 – ''The Big Picture'', University Art Gallery, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio; including artists Jerry Burchard, Patrick Nagatani, Chris Enos, Sandi Fellman, Barbara Kasten, Rosamond Purcell, Lucas Samaras, William Wegman, Robert Heinecken, Marsha Burns, Jack Welpott, Suda House, Luciano Franchi de Alfaro III, Frank Gillette, Olivia Parker, Vicki Lee Ragan, John Reuter, John Gutkowski, and Judith Golden<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cullinan|first=Helen|date=February 22, 1985|title=Polaroid instant art on view|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-plain-dealer-polaroid-instant-art-on/192260012/|access-date=2026-02-27|work=The Plain Dealer|pages=74|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [https://jerryburchard.wordpress.com/ Jerry Burchard Wordpress] * [https://jerryburchard.blogspot.com/ Jerry Burchard Blogspot]
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