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Gelett Burgess, a Common card
Frank Gelett Burgess was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 128
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,300
Ranked #1,995 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was an important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, and association with The Crowd literary group.
- He is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He was the illustrator of the Goops murals, in Coppa's restaurant, in the Montgomery Block and author of the popular Goops books.
- Burgess coined the term "blurb."
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gelett Burgess article was read about 8,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Gelett Burgess
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gelett Burgess (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : California Faces: Selections from The Bancroft Library Portrait Collection Burgess, Gelett, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.



