The Metropolitan Museum of Art first opened on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. John Taylor Johnston, a railroad executive whose personal art collection seeded the museum, served as its first President, and the publisher George Palmer...
Since 1952, The Actor -- a rare "Rose Period" Picasso -- has hung prominently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, along with other examples of early paintings by the Spanish master.
Wed, Jan 27 | from Columbus Dispatch