Career
From 1942 to 1946, he worked as an artist in the public relations department of the United States Marine Corps. He painted in Fiji, the Gilbert Islands, Japan, the Mariana Islands, Samoa, and Japan, prior to moving to Maui in 1964. He is best known for his nude and semi-nude paintings of women of the Pacific islands.
Burke Tyree died at age 57 of a massive heart attack in Crows Landing, California.
