{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Tom Burckhardt | birth_name = Tom E. Burckhardt | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1967|05|02}} | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | occupation = {{hlist|Artist|painter}} | spouse = Kathy Butterly | parents = {{ubl|Rudy Burckhardt|Yvonne Jacquette}} | relatives = Burckhardt family | website = {{URL|tomburckhardt.com|Official website}} }}
'''Tom E. Burckhardt''' (born May 2, 1964) is an American artist and painter based in New York City. He is the youngest son of Rudy Burckhardt and therefore a member of the Burckhardt family. He is a recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Guggenheim Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grants.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Burckhardt '86 |url=https://www.purchase.edu/live/profiles/2335-tom-burckhardt-86 |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=www.purchase.edu |language=en}}</ref> His work has been extensively exhibited throughout the United States such as at Weatherspoon Museum of Greensboro and the Knoxville Art Museum.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Burckhardt - Artists - The Tibor de Nagy Gallery |url=https://www.tibordenagy.com/artists/tom-burckhardt |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=www.tibordenagy.com |language=en}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Burckhardt was born May 2, 1964, in New York City, the youngest son of Rudy Burckhardt, a Swiss-born photographer and filmmaker, and Yvonne Jacquette, a painter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<ref>United States Public Records, 1970-2009</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1999-08-04 |title=Rudy Burckhardt, 85, Photographer and Filmmaker, Dies (Published 1999) |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/04/arts/rudy-burckhardt-85-photographer-and-filmmaker-dies.html |access-date=2023-08-10 |last1=Smith |first1=Roberta }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-05-01 |title=Yvonne Jacquette, Painter of Views From on High, Dies at 88 |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/arts/yvonne-jacquette-dead.html |access-date=2023-08-10 |last1=Genzlinger |first1=Neil }}</ref> He had an older half-brother, Jacob who was born in 1949 from the prior marriage of his father to Edith Schloss. Through his father he is a descendant of the patrician family Burckhardt of Basel, Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=La Liberté 1 October 2005 — e-newspaperarchives.ch |url=http://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=LLE20051001-01.2.235.1&srpos=4 |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=www.e-newspaperarchives.ch |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == Burckhard is married to artist Kathy Butterly. They reside in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tom Burckhardt and Kathy Butterly {{!}} Arts {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2000/11/3/tom-burckhardt-and-kathy-butterly-ppeanut/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref>
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