I am 36 pages into this book because I started reading it while I was waiting for the parents of the girl I was babysitting to get home. I found the book on their bookshelf and recognized it immediately because my mom's last exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum where she works was on American art during the 1920's. I picked it up and started reading, and the writing itself is very elegant and setting up the scene for a really interesting story. There are many interesting characters and there is a great deal of mystery surrounding Mr.