The Capitalist and the Critic: J. P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Charles Molesworth

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Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art began an ambitious program of collection building and physical expansion that transformed it into one of the world’s foremost museums, an eminence that it has maintained ever since. Two men of singular qualities and accomplishments played key roles in the Met’s transformation—J. P. Morgan, America’s leading financier and a prominent art collector, and Roger Fry, the headstrong English expert in art history who served as the Met’s curator of painting. Their complicated, often contentious relationship embodies and illuminates the myriad tensions between commerce and art, philanthropists...

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  • ISBN10 1477308407
  • ISBN13 9781477308400
  • Publish Date 1 March 2016
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Texas Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English