Bryson Burroughs
Illustration — Portrait of Bryson Burroughs by Henry Caro-Delvaille • Illustration — June, 1918, oil on canvas, 30 x 36 in, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. • Illustration — The Archers, 1917, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum Henry Bryson Burroughs (8 September 1869 – November 1934) was an American artist and employee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He began there as an assistant to Curator of Paintings Roger Fry, and when Fry left in 1909, Burroughs assumed the role. His purchase of View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph for the museum became the first of Paul Cézanne's paintings to enter a public collection.
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Bryson Burroughs
Henry Caro-Delvaille · Princeton Art Museum · Public domain
- Born
- 1869. · Hyde Park.
- Died
- 1934. · New York City.
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- United States.
- Occupation
- painter and art historian.
- Education
- Art Students League of New York.
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Illustration — Portrait of Bryson Burroughs by Henry Caro-Delvaille • Illustration — June, 1918, oil on canvas, 30 x 36 in, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. • Illustration — The Archers, 1917, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum Henry Bryson Burroughs (8 September 1869 – November 1934) was an American artist and employee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He began there as an assistant to Curator of Paintings Roger Fry, and when Fry left in 1909, Burroughs assumed the role. His purchase of View of the Domaine Saint-Joseph for the museum became the first of Paul Cézanne's paintings to enter a public collection.
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He also purchased the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych and The Harvesters for the Met. Before dedicating himself to painting, Burroughs was a successful racing cyclist who seriously contemplated turning professional in that discipline.
Bryson Burroughs studied at Art Students League of New York. Employment is recorded with Metropolitan Museum of Art. Work by Bryson Burroughs is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art.
Bryson Burroughs was born in 1869 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts; then an independent suburb of Boston. He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. After high school, he began to pursue painting, and attended the Art Students League of New York and won a scholarship to learn in academies in Paris. There he worked under Luc-Olivier Merson and met noted painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and would bring him his work for advice. In 1895, Burroughs and his wife lived for several months in Florence, Italy. In 1909, he became the Curator of Paintings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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In England in 1893, Burroughs married the sculptor Edith Woodman; they remained together until her death in January 1916. His daughter Betty was married to painter Reginald Marsh from 1923 to 1933.
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- 1.Raynor, Vivien. Art: Bryson Burroughs, Work Inspired By Myth. The New York Times. March 2, 1984.
- 2.Gelfand, Aleksandr. This Weekend in Met History: March 17. Metropolitan Museum of Art. March 15, 2013.
- 3.New York Times. 1869 -- BRYSON BURROUGHS -- 1934. March 31, 1935.
- 4.CyclingRanking.com. Bryson Burroughs' Palmares at CyclingRanking.com.
- 5.Field, Hamilton Easter. Bryson Burroughs: The Man and His Work. Arts & Decoration. Joseph A. Judd Publishing Company. 12. 2. 82–4. December 15, 1919.
- 6.Todd, Ellen Wiley. The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street. University of California Press. 51. 1993. 9780520074712.
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