Review: Edward Mendelson on Hugh Eakin’s ”Picasso‘s War”

A recurring scene in Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America, Hugh Eakin’s absorbing cultural history of modern art’s migration, has someone walking into a collector’s home or an artist’s studio and finding “canvases, lined up with their faces to the wall.” This scene occurs in New York in the book’s opening sentence—“the painting was in the corri…