"MODERN ART AND AMERICA: ALFRED STIEGLITZ AND HIS NEW YORK GALLERIES".

NATIONAL GALLERY, WASHINGTON, DC

In the first half of the twentieth century, Alfred Stieglitz did more to introduce modern art to an American public than--arguably--any other single individual. Even for all of his fame as a photographer, he will probably be best remembered as an art dealer, a profession whose commercial activities he disdained. In an era when ego and greed have earned many gallerists the kind of reputation usually reserved for used-car salesmen, it is remarkable that a major American museum--the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, no less--would organize an ...

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