The painter behind Manhattan’s Gilded Age interiors

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Though his name is all but forgotten, James Wall Finn’s paintings adorn some of Manhattan’s most beautiful rooms. Such obscurity suits a man who sought recognition only from peers and patrons. It dawned upon me recently that some of the most beautiful interiors open to the public in Manhattan – the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library, the Lyceum Theatre, Villa Albertine and the Morgan Library – owe a good deal of their charm to decorative paintings by the same man, James Wall Finn (c. 1866-1913).

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