The Sleeping Gypsy

[caption id="attachment_19892" align="aligncenter" width="554"] The Sleeping Gypsy, Henri Rousseau, 1897, Museum of Modern Art[/caption] John Quinn was a corporate lawyer and Wall Street titan.  A bachelor known for his many lovers, Quinn was also America’s first great modern art collector and tireless public champion.  He was a friend of literary and art legends like Picasso, WB Yeats, and Joseph Conrad. Quinn died in 1924 of cancer with an 8-year-old Will.  He was 54.  His….