Jude Burkhauser

In a review, critic Lynne Walker commended Burkhauser for the exhibition's achievement in demonstrating that "much of the powerful visual culture of Glasgow c.1900 was produced by and for women".

Burkhauser arrived at Glasgow School of Art in 1987 on a Rotary International Scholarship to do postgraduate research on the subject of Scottish women artists and remained in the city until 1991.

In the catalogue, Burkhauser commented that “Young women in the arts have been starved for stories of other women, tales of these maverick sisters whom they might learn from [...] We followed in one another’s footsteps, knocking on doors, asking the same questions, rediscovering fire, the wheel, electricity, because there was no record of our past.”[5] In this respect, the 'Glasgow Girls' exhibition is deemed a triumph in the course of art history for its promotion of Scottish female artists.

Burkhauser's dedication to its success was evident in the use of her own property as the insurance to bring Margaret Macdonald's painting The Opera of the Seas (1915) to Glasgow from Germany.

She had a love for railway architecture and during her years in Cape May, lived in a converted train station which she had restored as a local history library.