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Author Samuel Gray Ward (1817-1907) was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum and its first treasurer, and the grandfather of art patron Elizabeth Ward Perkins. Ward was a minor member of the American Transcendentalism movement and an intimate of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his circle. Ward translated Goethe's Essays On Art (1845) and ultimately gave up a career in writing for business just before he married.
