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Article: R.T.H. Halsey: American Wing founder and champion of Duncan Phyfe.(New York Metropolitan Museum, American Wing)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Richard Townley Haines Halsey (Fig. 1), known to family and friends as R.T., was one of the best friends the Metropolitan Museum of Art ever had. In Merchants and Masterpieces, a history of the museum, Calvin Tomkins wrote that, in the decade leading up to the building of the American Wing, Halsey was the Metropolitan's principal "scout, scholar and benefactor" for all things American. [1] In reality, he functioned as the Metropolitan's first curator of American decorative arts, although he never officially held that title.
Born on August 28, 1865, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, R. T. H. Halsey was the eldest child of William Forest Halsey, a banker, and Frances ...
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