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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 255334, member: 5066&quot;]lol, Yeah, I am goin with gregsglass on this one!</p><p>Did the Met make some mistakes early on? YES! but, let&#039;s not lose sight of the fact that in 1920, there was not a single piece of American furniture in ANY museum in the nation. Why? because American furniture was considered inferior to european and was not considered worthy of collecting.</p><p>The Met persuaded Mrs Russell Sage to purchase the Eugene Bowles furniture collection and donate it to them, the finest collection of early american furniture EVER and, which serves as the foundation of the American Wing exhibition. I think Mrs Sage also provided the funds to build the New American Wing as well to house Bowles collection.</p><p>Bottom Line? Did the Met make some mistakes? Yes but, the fact remains that collecting american furniture was a very radical notion at that time, it just wasn&#039;t being done or even thought about. Without the foresight of the Met &amp; generosity of Mrs Sage in 1920, America would have probably lost FOREVER a national treasure of early americana.</p><p>ALL HAIL THE MET! they did well, very well indeed considering it was 1920[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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