Part I: Genesis – The Mellon Dream
1.1 The Patrician’s Gift
The National Gallery of Art is unique among the world’s great museums. The Louvre was a royal palace. The British Museum grew from a physician’s cabinet of curiosities. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was a consortium of financiers. But the NGA was the singular vision of one man: Andrew W. Mellon...
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