Royal Cortissoz, American art critic (born 1869)

Royal Cortissoz

19th and 20th-century American art historian

Royal Cortissoz was an American art historian and, from 1891 until his death, the art critic for the New York Herald Tribune. During his tenure at the newspaper, he consistently championed traditionalism and decried modernism. Of the latter, he once wrote, "It will someday prove…