PROVO, UT.- The Brigham Young Museum of Art presents starting July 28 the exhibit The Intimate Eye: Drawings by Burton Silverman through September 25. The show will feature 30 drawings that span Silverman's career of more than four decades. Silverman's work has appeared in New Yorker Magazine "Profiles," and on the covers of Time Magazine, Newsweek and New York Magazine. He has designed dozens of postage stamps, and the Society of Illustrators elected him to the Hall of Fame in 1990. Although intended as a teaching exhibition for the many drawing students on campus, the technical virtuosity and sheer visual appeal of Silverman's figurative studies will appeal to a large and appreciative audience.

Burton has had 29 solo shows in New York , Boston, Philadelphia and Washington, DC. and Denver Colorado. He has appeared in numerous national and international exhibitions including the Mexico City Museum of Art, the Royal Academy of Art in London, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Academy of Design and regional exhibits throughout the US. The most recent of these was in May thru September of 2004 at the Delaware Art Museum which hosted the exhibition "Glorious Dignity:" Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman.


He has won 32 major prizes from annual exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society and the Butler Institute of American Art. His paintings are represented in almost two dozen public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The New Britain Museum, the Mint Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the National Museum of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery. His work is included in numerous private collections both in the US and Europe.

In February of 1999, the Butler Institute of American Art held a retrospective of his work titled “Sight and Insight; the Art of Burton Silverman. This show traveled to the Brigham Young Museum in Utah in May of 1999. A full monograph and catalog with the same title accompanied this major exhibition and covered 25 years of his art.

His portrait commissions have included distinguished persons in government and the private sector Mr. Silverman has also been commissioned to paint portraits for the covers of Time Magazine and has drawn portraits of over 125 persons featured in the Profiles segment of the New Yorker from 1964 through 1994.

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as a full Academician in 1974 as well as to the prestigious Society of Illustrator’s Hall of Fame in 1990 and is only one of three electees to the Pastel Society of America Hall of Fame . In 1998 he was honored by the American Society of Portrait Artists with the John Singer Sargent Medal for Distinction in Portraiture. In 2001 the artist was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco In February of 2005 Mr. Silverman will be honored by the Newington Cropsey Cultural Studies Center Award for Excellence in the Arts

He has presented slide lectures in museums and art schools across the country on Realism in the age of Modernism in the 20th century. His two prior books on painting as well as the current monograph, Sight and Insight; the Art of Burton Silverman have reached audiences in Europe, Australia, Asia and South America. He has also authored articles and has been featured in art magazines and journals including Art News, Book World, the Artist’s Magazine, the American Arts Quarterly, Art Talk and International Artist

He is represented by the Gallery Henoch in New York, the Total Arts Gallery in Taos, NM and the Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco.