Editing J. P. Morgan (section)

===Collections===
Morgan was a collector of books, pictures, paintings, clocks and other art objects, many loaned or given to the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] (of which he was president and a major force in its establishment), and many housed in his London house and in his private library on 36th Street, near [[Madison Avenue]] in New York City.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

For a number of years the British artist and art critic Roger Fry worked for the museum, and in effect for Morgan, as a collector.<ref>Virginia Woolf, ''[[Roger Fry: A Biography]]'', London, the Hogarth Press, 1940</ref>

His son, J. P. Morgan Jr., made the [[Morgan Library & Museum|Pierpont Morgan Library]] a public institution in 1924 as a memorial to his father, and appointed [[Belle da Costa Greene]], his father's private librarian, as its first director.{{sfn|Auchincloss|1990|p={{page needed|date=January 2023}}}}

====Gems====
By the turn of the century, Morgan had become one of America's most important collectors of gems and had assembled the most important gem collection in the U.S.  [[Tiffany & Co.]] assembled his first collection, which comprised over 1,000 American gemstones, under Tiffany's chief gemologist, [[George Frederick Kunz]]. The collection was exhibited at the World's Fair in Paris in 1889. The exhibit won two golden awards and drew the attention of important scholars, lapidaries, and the general public.<ref>[http://www.farlang.com/gemstones/kunz_gems_and_precious_stones/page_351 ''Morgan and His Gem Collection'']; George Frederick Kunz: Gems and Precious Stones of North America, New York, 1890, accessed online February 20, 2007.</ref>

George Frederick Kunz continued to build a second, even finer, collection which was exhibited in Paris in 1900. These collections have been donated to the [[American Museum of Natural History]] in New York, where they were known as the Morgan-Tiffany and the Morgan-Bement collections.<ref>[http://www.farlang.com/gemstones/kunz-history-north-carolina-gems/page_012 ''Morgan and His Gem Collections'']; donations to AMNH; in George Frederick Kunz: History of Gems Found in North Carolina, Raleigh, 1907, accessed online February 20, 2007.</ref>

====Photography====
[[File:Morgan collection US gems.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|U.S. [[gemstone]]s from the Morgan collection]]
Morgan was a patron to photographer [[Edward S. Curtis]], offering Curtis $75,000 in 1906 (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|index=US-GDP|value=75,000|start_year=1906|r=-4}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}) to create a series on the [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indians]].<ref>{{cite web| title=Biography| url=http://www.fluryco.com/curtis/index.htm| work=Edward S. Curtis| publisher=Flury & Company| location=Seattle| page=4| access-date=August 7, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120807071011/http://www.fluryco.com/curtis/index.htm| archive-date=August 7, 2012| url-status=dead| df=mdy-all}}</ref> Curtis eventually published a 20-volume work entitled ''The North American Indian''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dc.library.northwestern.edu/collections/55ff2504-dd53-4943-b2cb-aeea46e77bc3|title=Digital Collections - Libraries - Northwestern University|website=dc.library.northwestern.edu}}</ref> Curtis also produced a motion picture, ''[[In the Land of the Head Hunters]]'' (1914), which was restored in 1974 and re-released as ''In the Land of the War Canoes''. Curtis was also famous for a 1911 [[magic lantern]] slide show ''[[The Indian Picture Opera]]'' which used his photos and original musical compositions by composer [[Henry F. Gilbert]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.customflix.com/Store/ShowEStore.jsp?id=218654 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311140326/http://www.customflix.com/Store/ShowEStore.jsp?id=218654 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 11, 2007 |title=The Indian Picture Opera—A Vanishing Race }}</ref>