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Whose Son Has Now Presented to the Public His Father's Incomparable Library
J. Pierpont Morgan—America's Supreme Patron of Art
Whose Son Has Now Presented to the Public His Father's Incomparable Library
No American was ever a more ardent or generous patron of art than J. Pierpont Morgan, whether in the pleasant realms of paintings, rare books, or objets d'art. His matchless library—admittedly the greatest private collection of books in the world—is at last, for all time, the property of the public. This portrait of him, by Edward Steichen, has never before been published. Mr. Morgan used to say that he preferred it above all other portraits of himself. A single platinum enlargement of it recently fetched the sum of one thousand dollars.
