| Burke, Mary Griggs | ||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||
| dates | 1916-2012 | |||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||
| other cities | Saint Paul, MN; Cablle, WI; Oyster Bay, NY; Hobe Sound, FL; | |||||||||
| sex | F | |||||||||
| history |
Mary Livingston Griggs Burke was an Asian art collector. In addition, she was a trustee for institutions such as the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach, Florida. Works of art in Burke’s collection, primarily from Japan, included paintings, prints, sculpture, textiles, lacquerware, ceramics, and calligraphy from early Japanese cultures (c. 3000 B.C.) through that of the Edo period (17th to 19th centuries). She left her collection to be divided among the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minnesota. Significant exhibitions of works of art from her collection were shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1975 and 2000 and the Tokyo National Museum in 1985. The latter led to her being honored by the Japanese government with the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1987. Mary Grigg's husband was the book and type designer, Jackson Burke (1908– 1975). She was born in St. Paul, MN, and her parents were Theodore W. Griggs, and Mary Steele Livingston. |
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| decades | 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 2000-2010 |
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| updated | 02/14/2025 10:12:25 | |||||||||
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