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Q&A: Albert Barnes' Biographer, Blake Gopnik, on the Importance of Museums
The Barnes Foundation is a gem of impressionist and early modernist art in central Philadelphia. Originally in suburban Merion, Pennsylvania, the art was collected by pharmaceutical millionaire ...
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Who Really Was Albert Barnes, the Rogue Collector Whose Tastes Shaped U.S. Art?
Blake Gopnik, author of 'The Maverick's Museum,' on the contradictory life and legacy of the man behind the world-famous ...
Billionaire art lover Albert Barnes was brilliant in business. He was also ‘emotionally, socially incredibly stupid’
Albert C. Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation, was too large a character to be restrained by mortality. He and his collection have been the subject of a documentary and books, and the terms of ...
Wall Street Journal24d
‘The Maverick’s Museum’ Review: Albert Barnes and the Art of Collecting
Ezra Pound described the scientist turned art collector Albert Barnes (1872-1951) as “at war with mankind.” After making a fortune in pharmaceuticals, Barnes developed eccentric ideas about ...
The Atlantic27d
The Man Who Owned 181 Renoirs
collecting modern art was outrageous. Within 10 years, Barnes had acquired some 700 paintings. But art to him was more than a proxy for cultural sophistication and a fat bank account. It made him ...
The Art Newspaper28d
‘He could be grotesquely, wildly intemperate’: biographer Blake Gopnik tells us about the great collector Albert C. Barnes
A new biography focused on the life and legacy of the man dubbed America’s first great collector of Modern art, Albert Coombs Barnes, is timely, coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the ...