The world of Japanese art has lost one of the great collectors with the death of Mary Griggs Burke, age 96, at her home in New York City on December 8, 2012.
Mary Livingston Griggs was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on June 20, 1916. She grew up in a Victorian mansion filled with 18th-century French art, but was also exposed to a few Japanese pieces that her mother had acquired. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1938 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied literature with Joseph Campbell and painting with Bradley Walker Tomlin, a member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists.
Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, Board member of the Japanese Art Society of America and highly respected independent scholar, passed away just before Thanksgiving 2012 following a brief illness. Terry had served on the Board for several years and impressed everyone with her scholarship, enthusiasm and perceptive observations. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family and all who mourn her passing.
