About Us
Catherine Burns Fine Art
Catherine Burns has been a dealer in fine art prints and drawings for over 30 years. She launched her business after serving as the Curator of Collections and Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Museum, and later as Curator of the Washington University Museum of Art, St. Louis. Her inventory of museum-quality prints reflects her strong interest in American and French art, German Expressionism, and British Modernism.
Catherine Burns was a founding member of the International Fine Print Dealers Association and regularly exhibits at the New York Print Fair and other national and international art fairs. She serves an active group of clients worldwide, including private collectors, museums, and other fine art print dealers.
In past years, her firm published illustrated catalogues and now maintains a website of current inventory focused on American and European works. The website indicate only a portion of our extensive inventory. Please make your collecting interests known and the staff can respond with a more complete list. Catherine Burns is also interested in the purchase or consignment of fine art prints and drawings. Feel free to call us at (510) 654-7910.
Selected museum clients:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
New York Public Library, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Detroit Institute of Arts
San Francisco Fine Arts Museums
Baltimore Museum of Art
Cleveland Museum of Art
Princeton Art Museum, New Jersey
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
Art Institute of Chicago
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
St. Louis Art Museum
Milwaukee Museum of Art
Worcester Art Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
New York Times
“You may seek and find all sort of gems by lesser-known talents, including a couple of sexy pictures by the wonderful early 20th-century woodcut artist Félix Vallotton at Catherine E. Burns’s booth”
Wall Street Journal
“From Catherine Burns of Oakland, California, comes ‘Peasant Mother and Child’, created in 1894 by one of America’s foremost Impressionists, Mary Cassatt. “Her color prints are considered among the most important created at the turn of the 20th century,” says Burns, adding that Cassatt applied ink to the printing plates for this work with her own hands, making each impression uniquely distinctive.”

