he put together a show devoted to American women, including Morris's wife, Suzy Frelinghuysen, as well as Alice Trumbull Mason and Esphyr Slobodkina. That same year New York University informed him that he had to close the Museum of Living Art so that the space it occupied could be repurposed as a wartime economy measure. Greatly disappointed, Gallatin accepted an offer from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to provide a home for it. Within a few months 175 works from his collection were moved to Philadelphia and a few were donated to the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to which Morris and Frelinghuysen were connected. During the remainder of the 1940s, until his death in 1952, he continued to paint, promote, and collect non-objective art. In 1952 was given a one-man retrospective exhibition at the Rose Fried Gallery, New York. On his death he dispersed his remaining works of art to the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, the National Gallery of Art, and his two sisters. At the end of his life the style of painting that he had championed was falling out of favor as abstract-expressionist art achieved its first critical recognition. Since that time it has regained critical attention and public appeal and is seen at least by some as influencing the minimalist and hard-edge artists who came into prominence in the 1960s as well as younger artists such as Sarah Morris and Mai Braun. Family ] Albert was a common given name in the Gallatin family. Gallatin's great-grandfather was Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), Secretary of the Treasury under presidents Jefferson and Madison and one of founders of New York University. His second son was named Albert Rolaz (1800-1890) and Albert Rolaz's first son, Gallatin's father, was named Albert Horatio. Gallatin had two uncles named Albert, one, surnamed Gallatin, had died before his birth, and the other, surnamed Stevens, died in 1904. Two other uncles, Frederic and James Gallatin had sons named Albert. These two cousins were sometimes confused with Gallatin. Like Gallatin, both lived in New York and both were sufficiently prominent to receive frequent mentions in the local press. Frederic's son was simply Albert (born January 8, 1880, died September 1, 1965). This Albert Gallatin formed a collection of ancient Egyptian art sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art after his death. Gallatin's father, Albert Horatio Gallatin, was born March 7,