Abstract

The history of institutes for advanced research in the visual arts in the United States is a recent one, dependent as much on the happy accidents of Fortune as of fortune. Great fortunes made in banking and the oil business, especially, but also fortunes generated by a successful chain of discount stores and a sewing machine empire provided the funds needed to found all of the major art history research centers in the United States: the Getty Research Institute, the Center for Advanced Study ...

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