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Creating a Market in American Art: the Contribution of the Macbeth Gallery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Victor G. Wexler
Victor G. Wexler
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Victor G. Wexler isAssociate Professor in the Department of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21228, USA.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , August 1991 , pp. 245 - 255
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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