The Capitalist and the Critic - Charles Molesworth

#ads Stream any unabridged audiobook of your choice with premium access by starting your trial on:https://booksreader.space/al-1964/Title: The Capitalist and the Critic Author: Charles Molesworth Narrator: Douglas R Pratt Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins Release date: 11-12-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Art Publisher's Summary: 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.