Burr Edgar Wallen ’63

BURR, A PROFESSOR of art history at the Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, died of complications of AIDS Sept. 24, 1991, at his home in Santa Barbara.

A specialist in Northern Renaissance art and the history of prints, he had just finished a book on Hieronymus Bosch and his career was at its crest when disease struck, said a colleague at U.C.S.B. Burr joined the U.C.S.B. faculty in 1976, as an assistant professor, after graduate work at N.Y.U.'s Institute of Fine Arts, where he earned a master's in 1965 and a doctorate. Burr was well known for scholarly research on prints, which led to exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and elsewhere. He taught graduate and undergraduate courses at U C 5. B. and had served as chairman of the art history department.

Burr, who went from John Jay H.S. in Cross River, N.Y., to college on a General Motors scholarship , was an English major at Princeton, spent his summers as a counselor at the Blairstown Camp for underprivileged boys, worked in the library, belonged to Colonial Club, and was a university research assistant.

Surviving are a brother, Eugene F. Jr., and a sister, Jane Setaro.

The Class of 1963