About Bryson Burroughs
Lived 1869 – 1934 (aged 64–65). Bryson Burroughs was an American painter and art historian.
June, 1918, oil on canvas, 30 x 36 in, the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
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. He also purchased the Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych and The Harvesters for the Met.
Early life Bryson Burroughs was born in 1869 in Hyde Park, Massachusetts; then an independent suburb of Boston. He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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American painter and art historian (1869–1934)
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Bryson Burroughs was born in 1869 in Hyde Park.
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