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

by Charles Molesworth

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477308407
• ISBN13: 9781477308400
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"