Burt Procter

Artist
1901-1980
BP: Gloucester, MA
LNP: Southern California

Born in Gloucester, Mass in 1901, Burt Procter was infatuated with the Wild West, and began drawing horses, cowboys and Indians as a small child. At age 17 he went west to the Little Big Horn basin in Wyoming later studying mining engineering at Stanford University then working for the Federal Government at the Grand Canyon. After his move to Pasadena in 1920, Procter worked as a commercial artist and further studied at Chouinard and Otis Art Institutes under Chamberlin and Lawrence Murphy. He studied art with Harvey Dunn and Pruett Carter after moving to New York in the late 1920s working as an art director for an advertising agency. In the 1930s, he worked as a mining engineer throughout the West while in his leisure painting desert and western scenes. In 1938 Procter married and settled in southern California spending summers in Corona del Mar and winters in Palm Springs until his death on July 2, 1980.

Member: Palm Springs AA; Laguna Beach AA. Exhibitions: Pasadena Society of Artists, 1937; Nicholson Gallery (LA), 1937; Pasadena Arts & Crafts, 1941; Bernay Gallery (LA), 1941, 1945; Tuesday Afternoon Club (Glendale), 1942; Stevor Gallery (Pasadena), 1947; Glendale Public Library, 1948; South Laguna Gallery, 1948; Allied AA (Palm Springs), 1949; Studio Gallery (Corona del Mar), 1949; White’s Art Store (Montrose), 1950; Festival of Arts (Laguna Beach), 1951-61; Nat'l Academy of Western Art, 1973; Southwest Museum (LA), 1974 (solo).



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