"Buying Pictures for New York: The Founding Purchase of 1871"

Katharine Baetjer's primary areas of interest are eighteenth-century English, French, and Venetian Old Master paintings and pastels and, secondarily, European portrait miniatures. She has also written on Klimt and Jackson Pollock at The Met and on the history and formation of the collection. A contributor to the online catalogue, she was also a longtime member of the editorial board of the Metropolitan Museum Journal.