(Ralph) Burke Tyree, painter, found at Minnie's

One of the places my art hangs, on bar napkins downstairs, but in inks and watercolors in the old upstairs bar and hall area, is at Minnie's, where I've also done tee shirt and poster designs over the years for various events. It is also one of the places, the other would be the Tiki, where the works of Burke Tyree hang, paintings I enjoy looking at, and tonight after film society, got a chance to talk to Stuart Mah on a Tyree in distress.

This particular one, hung upstairs where my paintings went, and a lamp lit too close put a burn in the velvet, and we were discussing what sort of patch, repair, or what restoration or collector advice to look at, as there are collectors of Tyree's work.

So, here is a note from one of our downtown institutions, just out of range of the Third Thursday Art Walk, where art does hang, and a good biography posted online of an artist who worked here locally, and died in the 1970s in Crows Landing.

following excerpt from the Biography posted on http://www.minniesmodesto.com in the Tiki Bar section.

Minnie's Restaurant features carvings and artwork throughout, most notably a large
number of beautiful oil and black velvet paintings by the artist Tyree. The owners of Minnie's
are interested in trading with other owners of Tyree paintings featuring animals. Below is a
biography of the Artist Tyree:
(Ralph) Burke Tyree was born June 30, 1921 in Irving, Kentucky.
He had two sisters and five brothers and was the seventh of eight
children born to Sally Turpin and Charles Green Tyree. The Tyree
family moved to Delhi, California while he was an infant.

He attended Livingston High School, but transferred to Turlock High
for his last two years since they offered more art instruction. He
graduated high school in 1939. He met his future wife, Marguerite
(Margo) Almeida, in high school and was awarded a scholarship to
the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland for a portrait he
painted of her. He studied art there and later at the San Francisco
School of Fine Arts.

(for the rest of Tyree's biography as posted at Minnie's official web site, see http://www.minniesmodesto.com on the Tiki Bar Page}