Lilian Thomas Burwell (born 1927) is a Washington, DC sculptor and painter whose shaped paintings often blur the line between the two disciplines.
Born into a creative family, her father was a photographer and her mother was an artist and craftsperson, and both taught art.
[4][5] Lilian Thomas Burwell studied abstract expressionism with famed artist Benjamin Abramowitz in the mid-1960s and she worked in this genre until the early 1980s.
[6] She is a longtime member of the Washington, D.C. and African-American arts communities, and maintained close friendships with the painters Felrath Hines, Alma Thomas, and Sylvia Snowden.
[9] In addition, Burwell has 30 years of graphic design experience, including work as a publications and exhibits specialist for the U.S. Department of Commerce.