 It was also here that Professor Samuel F. B. Morse established the first academic art department in the U.S.Between 1927 and 1942, the space now occupied by the Grey Art Gallery hosted A. E. Gallatin's Gallery (later Museum) of Living Art—the first American museum exclusively devoted to modernist art.In exhibiting work by Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Jean Arp, and artists associated with the American Abstract Artists group, Gallatin created a forum for intellectual exchange and a place where visitors could view the latest developments in art.