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David Cannadine, author of Andrew Mellon: An American Life, in the West Building Rotunda, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The building, which opened to the public in1941, was constructed with funds given by Mellon. Copyright 2006 National Gallery of Art. Photographer: Deborah Ziska

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David Cannadine, author of Andrew Mellon: An American Life, at the Andrew W. Mellon Memorial Fountain in front of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The building, which opened to the public in 1941, was constructed with funds given by Mellon. Copyright 2006 National Gallery of Art. Photographer: Deborah Ziska

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David Cannadine, author of Andrew Mellon: An American Life, on the steps of the West Building of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The building, which opened to the public in 1941, was constructed with funds given by Mellon. Copyright 2006 National Gallery of Art. Photographer: Deborah Ziska

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Cover art: Andrew Mellon: An American Life

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Andrew W. Mellon in his apartment at 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, c. 1930. View on the High Road (1665), by Meindert Hobbema, is over the mantel, and Aelbert Cuyp's Herdsmen Tending Cattle (1655/1660) is in the background.

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David Finley (left) with Chester Dale (center) and John Walker (right) at the opening of the exhibition Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting and the National Gallery of Art, 1959. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Gallery Archives.

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Andrew W. Mellon (center) with David Finley (left) and Ray Atherton (right).

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John Russell Pope, conceptual drawing for the National Gallery of Art, 1936.  Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Gallery Archives.

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Cover art: Duveen: A Life in Art

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Meryle Secrest, author of Duveen: A Life in Art
Photo by Marion Ettlinger

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David Doheny, author of David Finley: Quiet Force for America's Arts, stands beside a portrait of Finley by Gardner Cox (1956), now hanging at the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, Washington, DC, which Finley served as chairman from 1950 to 1963. Courtesy U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, Photography by Lee Ewing

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Cover art for David Finley: Quiet Force for America's Arts