Artist Bruce Burton and Franchise Trees, Inc. are proud to introduce franchisetrees.com, the official website for Burton Trees.

Chicago

July 2008

About Bruce Burton

Bruce Burton created his first Burton Tree™ in 1979 for British Rock. Since then, Bruce has created almost thirty Family Trees of specific music and sports subjects from the Chicago White Sox and Green Bay Packers to Sixties Music and Heavy Metal Rock. Originally from Evanston, Illinois, Bruce has also made an impact on Chicago’s North Shore acting as the role model and swim coach for Loyola, Evanston and New Trier High School. He is well known throughout Chicago for being a leader in the development of young athletes. In his free time, Bruce can be found in Southern Illinois where he vacations regularly.

About Franchise Trees, Inc.

Franchise Trees, Inc. was started in 2007 by Eric Fine. Eric went to New Trier High School where swam for Bruce. Upon graduation, Bruce gave Eric (and all of his graduating seniors) a Family Tree of the Chicago White Sox. Eric recalls studying the tree, oftentimes looking for old-time ballplayers and wondering how on earth such a print was ever imagined, let alone produced. A self described internet junkie, Eric approached Bruce in hopes of bringing his artwork to the masses via the World Wide Web. In 2008, Franchise Trees, Inc. was named the official publisher of art by Bruce Burton, launching franchisetrees.com as the official storefront. Burton and Fine hope to open a studio before the end of 2011 encouraging artists to create their own Burton Trees for their passions. Mr. Fine resides in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago.