Robert de Forest and the founding of the American Wing - New York Metropolitan Museum

Magazine Antiques, Jan, 2000 by Amelia Peck

(13.) As Robert de Forest recounted in his introduction of Atterbury on the opening day of the American Wing, "It was no tempting task for an architect to do nothing original himself, but to frame in a lot of old rooms with all their old corners and all their irregularities. And it was no small task to do this with all the changes that everybody, at one time or another, would suggest" (reprinted in Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the American Wing, pp. 16-17).

(14.) Ibid., p. 19.

(15.) Ibid., pp. 9-10.

(16.) Charter, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, State of New York, Laws of 1870, Chapter 197, Passed April 13, 1870, Section 1.

(17.) "Child Welfare Exhibit: Children's Use of the Metropolitan Museum of Art," an address by Robert W. de Forest, February 2, 1911, reprinted in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 6 (March 1911), p.60.

(18.) New York Herald Tribune, February 4, 1929.

(19.) Undated manuscript of c. 1930 of a speech or article by Robert de Forest (Robert de Forest files).