3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British-American art dealer who sold Old Master paintings to American Gilded Age industrialists — Frick, Mellon, Morgan, Kress — and who built the US National Gallery of Art, the Frick Collection, and many other American museum collections through his sales.
American art dealer and collector who was a significant figure in the New York art world of the early 20th century — associated with the same community as Coomaraswamy, the Lewisohn sisters, and the broader network of arts figures in the Armory Show era.
S.N. Behrman's profile of art dealer Joseph Duveen — originally published as a series of New Yorker profiles and collected as a book — documenting Duveen's techniques for selling Old Master paintings to American Gilded Age industrialists.