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Ph.D. student Thomas Busciglio-Ritter's article "'Covetable Pictures': John Taylor Johnston (1820-1893), Collecting Art between New York and 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.
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Thomas Busciglio-Ritter discusses the art collection of the first Metropolitan Museum of Art president in the Oxford Journal of the History of Collection.
4/30/2020