ELIZABETH GOLDSTEIN
President, Municipal Art Society
McSorley’s Bar John Sloan (1871–1951) 1912, oil on canvas, 26 × 32 in. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 24.2
Many family road trips in the 1960s involved stopping at natural attractions or visiting grandparents, taking in a small-town carnival or reaching a lakeside cabin for a stay. For Elizabeth Goldstein, they meant piling into the car with her parents and sister and driving from their home in the Bronx to other cities to see Rembrandts and Goyas, Picassos and Mondrians.
“I come from an itinerant family always in search of art,” says Goldstein, who serves as president of New York’s Municipal Art Society (MAS), the influential nonprofit that advocates for preservation of the city’s built and natural environments. Goldstein…
