Money in the Air: Art Dealers and the Making of a Transatlantic Market, 1880-1930

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Edited by Gail Feigenbaum, Sandra van Ginhoven, and Edward Sterrett This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, collectors such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon are credited with bringing noteworthy European art to the United States, with their collections…