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Albert Eugene Gallatin

1881 – 1952

Albert Eugene Gallatin was an American art collector, painter, and writer, best remembered as a pioneering champion of modern art in the United States.

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He was the great-grandson of statesman Albert Gallatin and was educated in New York and devoted his life to the arts rather than politics or business. In 1927, he founded the Museum of Living Art at New York University, one of the first American museums to focus on modern art.

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