News Busciglio-Ritter publishes article on John Taylor Johnston

Ph.D. student Thomas Busciglio-Ritter’s article “‘Covetable Pictures’: John Taylor Johnston (1820–1893), Collecting Art Between New Yorkand Europe” was published in the March 2020 issue of the Oxford Journal of the History of Collection. In the text, Busciglio-Ritter discusses the art collection and collecting practices of John Taylor Johnston, the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1871 to 1889. Johnston was a significant figure in transatlantic collecting and opened his own art gallery on West 4th Street in New York City.