Old Masters, New World

This fascinating book takes you behind-the-scenes of America's art collecting boom in the late 1800s. Starting with the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, wealthy industrialists competed to acquire Europe's most prized Old Master paintings, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Learn about the fierce competition between tycoons like Henry Clay Frick and J. Pierpont Morgan, as well as the experts and dealers who negotiated the purchase and sale of the world's greatest masterpieces. Old Masters, New World is the captivating story of beauty, aesthetics, and power intertwined with money, trade, and taste.