Property from a Private Collection, Waycross, GA

Description:

Bryson Burroughs (NY, 1869-1934),The Horse Tamer, Oil on Canvas, 1933, signed and dated 1933 lower left, depicting a boy on a white horse leaping over a wood fence, with white farmhouse in the distance, with framer label on verso, in a wood frame. Frame size: 24 1/4 in. x 40 1/2 in.

Bryson Burroughs was born in 1869 in the Boston suburb of Hyde Park. As a child, his family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio where he later took art classes at the Cincinnati Museum. In 1889, Burroughs moved to New York City and enrolled in the Art Students League where he studied under Kenyon Cox and H. Siddons Mowbray. After receiving a Chanler Scholarship in 1890, Burroughs spent the next five years in Europe where he studied at the Academie Julian and traveled through France, England and Italy. While in France he was greatly influenced by the artist Puvis de Chavannes and emulates his simplification of shapes and tonality and an overall emphasis on linear outlines. In 1906, Burroughs became the assistant Curator of Paintings under Roger Fry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He later served as Chief Curator from 1909-1934. He continued to paint, influenced by the style of classicism, adapted by artists such as Kenneth Hayes Miller, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh (his son-in-law), Molly Luce (his daughter-in-law), Alexander Brook, Eugene Speicher, and Leon Kroll. Burroughs has had multiple exhibitions throughout the United States and his paintings can be found in the collections of the British Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Measurements: Height: by sight 19 1/4 in. x Width: 35 1/2 in.

Overall good condition, faded, some losses to paint in trees, in need of cleaning, large area of central green grass inpainted, small areas of inpainting in sky, light wear to edges of frame.