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336 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780670018314
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Publication date: 14 August 2008
Description
In 1870 a group of wealthy and culturally ambitious New Yorkers founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a Manhattan brownstone with a lackluster collection and not a single major work of art. Americans came late to the game of art collecting and...
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336 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780670018314
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Publication date: 14 August 2008
Description
In 1870 a group of wealthy and culturally ambitious New Yorkers founded the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a Manhattan brownstone with a lackluster collection and not a single major work of art. Americans came late to the game of art collecting and...