Morgan: The Collector

Book / Arnoldsche Collecting History Essays

Published: 09.10.2023

Editor:: Vanessa Sigalas, Jennifer Tonkovich

Edited by:: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

Edited at:: Stuttgart

Edited on:: 2023

Technical data:: 288 pages 21.5 x 27 cm, 212 ills. Hardcover English

ISBN / ISSN:: 978-3-89790-679-2

Price:: from 38 €

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The new publication Morgan: The Collector paints a multifaceted portrait of the American financier J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) as an art collector. It is also an homage to the curator Linda Roth, who has worked at the Wadsworth Atheneum for forty years and has dedicated a large part of her career to the study of Morgan’s collection.

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The essays in this richly illustrated publication offer a multi-layered portrait of J. Pierpont Morgan as art collector, exemplified by a broad selection of highlights from his wide-ranging acquisitions and examining throughout the motivation and purchasing decisions that made Morgan one of the most important collectors in America. This long-awaited book is aimed not only at an academic audience but also at anyone interested in the history of collecting, America in the Gilded Age, J. Pierpont Morgan himself, or European art.