Clyde Huntley Burroughs

He began work at the Detroit Museum of Art (predecessor to the Detroit Institute of Arts) in 1901 as assistant to museum director Armand H. Griffith and was officially conferred in 1904.{{cite journal |author= |date=1904 |title=Museum Notes |journal=Bulletin of the Detroit Museum of Arts |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=4 |doi=10.1086/BULLDETMUSART41934016 |doi-access=free }} Clyde Burroughs became acting director of the museum in 1913 and then assistant director to Charles Moore (city planner) from 1914 to 1917. He was director in his own right between 1917 and 1924. In 1924, Wilhelm Valentiner became director and Clyde Burroughs stayed at the museum as secretary and curator of American Art. He was also a charter member of the Scarab Club.{{cite web |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Inside+the+Scarab+Club.-a0388564600 |title=Inside the Scarab Club |author= |date= |website=The Free Library |publisher= |access-date=August 20, 2022}} He was chairman of the district committee for public works from 1933 to 1934, helping to find work for artists during the depression. He stayed on at the Detroit Institute of Arts as secretary until his retirement in 1946.

Eventually, he and his wife Edith settled in San Diego, California.

He passed away in San Diego, California in 1973 at the age of 91.{{cite news |author= |date=October 6, 1973 |title=C.H. Burroughs, Ex-Director of Art Institute, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/98294926/|url-access=subscription|work=Detroit Free Press |location= |access-date=}}

Burroughs as author or co-author:

• {{cite book |title=A Guide to the Collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit |publisher= |place= |year=1927}} (with Wilhelm Valentiner)
• {{cite book |title=Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit |publisher= |place= |year=1930}} (with Wiliam Heil)
• {{cite journal |last1= Burroughs|first1= Clyde H.|date=1910 |title=An Unusual Collection of Pictures by M. J. Iwill |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23916200 |journal=Fine Arts Journal |volume=23 |issue=6 |pages=329–337 |doi= |jstor= 23916200|access-date=August 21, 2022}}
• {{cite journal |last1= Burroughs|first1= Clyde H.|date=1927 |title=The New Home of the Detroit Institute of Arts |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23930344 |journal=The American Magazine of Art |volume=18 |issue=10 |pages=544–554 |doi= |jstor= 23930344|access-date=August 21, 2022}}
• {{cite journal |last1= Burroughs|first1= Clyde H.|date=1929 |title=Portraits by John Neagle and Samuel F.B. Morse |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/41501326 |journal=Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit |volume=10 |issue=8 |pages=104–06 |doi= 10.1086/BULLDETINST41501326|jstor= 41501326|s2cid= 192784567|access-date=August 21, 2022|url-access=subscription }}

• Detroit Institute of Arts
• Scarab Club
• Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner
• Charles Moore (city planner)

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• [https://dia.org/collection/clyde-h-burroughs-41310 A portrait of Clyde Burroughs by John Stephens Coppin, held by the Detroit Institute of Arts.]
• [http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/dia/collections/finding_aids/burroughs_finding_aid.pdf List of records kept in Detroit Institute of Arts library.]
• [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-clyde-h-burroughs-12459 Interview held by The American Art Archives], Oral history interview conducted by E.P. Richardson in 1956.
• [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-clyde-h-burroughs-12348 Interview held by The American Art Archives], Oral history interview conducted by William E. Woolfenden in 1961.

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