Background
Burke, Mary Griggs was born in St. Paul.
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Mary Griggs Burke
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Bachelor, Sarah Lawrence College Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology, Columbia University postgraduate, New School for Social Research.
Career
Private collector, Japanese art, St. Paul, since 1966;
founder, The Mary & Jackson Burke Foundation, New York City, since 1972. Member visiting committee Freer Gallery Art, Smithsonian Institution. Member Metropolitan Museum Art.
President The Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation.
Achievements
Membership
Member nominating committee, member membership committee, member Executive Committee, member activities committee The Japan Society, 1959-1977, chairman student and visitors committee, 1957-1963, chairman art gallery advising committee, 1970-1973, board directors, 1968-1977, also honorary life trustee. Chairman friend member Japan House Gallery, 1969-1975, 87-. Board directors The Cable (Wisconsin) Natural History Museum, 1968-1992, also honorary life trustee, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, 1968-1978,also honorary life trustee, The International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin, 1978-1990, The Hobe Sound (Florida) Nature Center, since 1987.
Member of advisory county department art history and archeology Columbia University, New York City, since 1970. Member international county Museum Modern Art, New York City, since 1970. Member visiting committee Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, since 1971, vice chairman, 1989-1992;member visiting committee department Asiatic art Museum Fine Arts, Boston, 1972-1990, also friend, 1972-1990.
Member visiting committee department Islamic art, member visiting committee department Asian art, member education committee, member acquisitions committee, board directors Metropolitan Museum Art, New York City, since 1976, also friend Far Eastern department, since 1984. Member Smithsonian Associations national board Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1977-1983. Member art gallery advising committee, member Executive Committee, member development committee, board directors The Asia Society, 1978-1988, also honorary life trustee.
Friend Brooklyn Mus.Art, since 1982, Friends of Asian Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, since 1991. William Beene fellows New York Zoological Society, since 1986.
