The Capitalist and the CriticShortly after the turn of the twentieth century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art began an ambitious program of collection building and physical expansion that transformed it into one of the worlds foremost museums, an eminence that it has maintained ever since. Two men of singular qualities and accomplishments played key roles in the Mets transformationJ. P. Morgan, Americas leading financier and a prominent art collector, and Roger Fry, the headstrong