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Duncan Phillips ( 1886 – 1966 ) played a seminal role in introducing America to modern art.

Born in Pittsburgh — the grandson of James Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company — Phillips and his family moved to Washington, D. C., in 1895.

He, along with his mother, established The Phillips Memorial Gallery after the sudden, untimely deaths of his father, Duncan Clinch Phillips ( 1838 – 1917 ), a Pittsburgh window glass millionaire, and brother, James Laughlin Phillips ( May 30, 1884 – 1918 ).