Bryson Burroughs

Bryson Burroughs was an American painter and museum curator who played a pivotal role in shaping the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection during the early 20th century. Born in 1869, he studied at the Art Students League in New York before traveling to Paris to continue his artistic education at the Académie Julian, where he absorbed the academic traditions and emerging modernist sensibilities of turn-of-the-century France. Burroughs joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art…