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Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century; the Metropolitan Museum of Art began an ambitious program of collection building and physical expansion that transformed it into one of the worlds foremost museums; an eminence that it has maintained ever since. Two men of singular qualities and accomplishments played key roles in the Mets transformationmdash;J. P. Morgan; Americas leading financier and a prominent art collector; and Roger Fry; the headstrong English expert in art history who served as the Mets curator of painting. Their complicated; often contentious relationship embodies and illuminates the myriad tensions between commerce and art; philanthropists and professional staff; that a great museum must negotiate to define and fulfill its mission.In this masterful; multidisciplinary narrative; Charles Molesworth offers the first in-depth look at how Morgan and Fry helped to mold the cultural legacy of masterpieces of painting and the development of the "encyclopedic" museum. Structuring the book as a joint biography; Molesworth describes how Morgan used his vast wealth to bring European art to an American citizenry; while Fry brought high standards of art history from the world of connoisseurs to a general public. Their clashes over the purpose and functions of the Met; which ultimately led to Frys ouster; reveal the forcesmdash;personal and societalmdash;that helped to shape the Metropolitan Museum and other major American cultural institutions during the twentieth century.