Bryson Burroughs

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.[1] 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.[1][2] He also purchased the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych and The Harvesters for the Met.[1] Before dedicating himself to painting, Burroughs was a successful racing cyclist who seriously contemplated turning professional in that discipline.[3][4]

Portrait of Bryson Burroughs by Henry Caro-Delvaille
June, 1918, oil on canvas, 30 x 36 in, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
The Archers, 1917, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Early life

Bryson Burroughs was born in 1869 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts; then an independent suburb of Boston.[5] He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio.[1] 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.[5][1]

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.[5]

Personal life

In England in 1893, Burroughs married the sculptor Edith Woodman; they remained together until her death in January 1916.[5]

His daughter Betty was married to painter Reginald Marsh from 1923 to 1933.[6]

References
  1. Raynor, Vivien (March 2, 1984). "Art: Bryson Burroughs, Work Inspired By Myth". The New York Times. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
  2. Gelfand, Aleksandr (March 15, 2013). "This Weekend in Met History: March 17". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
  3. "1869 -- BRYSON BURROUGHS -- 1934". New York Times. March 31, 1935.
  4. "Bryson Burroughs' Palmares at CyclingRanking.com". CyclingRanking.com.
  5. Field, Hamilton Easter (December 15, 1919). "Bryson Burroughs: The Man and His Work". Arts & Decoration. Joseph A. Judd Publishing Company. 12 (2): 82–4. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  6. Todd, Ellen Wiley (1993). The "New Woman" Revised: Painting and Gender Politics on Fourteenth Street. University of California Press. p. 51. ISBN 9780520074712. Retrieved November 30, 2017.

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