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With increased economic
prosperity after the Civil War, the American art scene burgeoned. One of
the most important private picture galleries in the Village belonged to
Robert Boorman Johnston's brother, John Taylor Johnston. In 1870 he and a
group of friends met there to found the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with
Johnson as its first president. After opening briefly in temporary
quarters, the museum was transferred in 1873 to No. 126 West 14th Street,
where it remained until 1879, when it moved to its present home uptown. He
was President of the Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of New York. |
