In “The Maverick’s Museum,” Blake Gopnik presents the contradictory, intriguing, infuriating man behind the Barnes Collection ...

Blake Gopnik’s entertaining biography of Barnes, “The Maverick’s Museum,” does nothing ... Barnes had bought conventional French and American paintings, by 1912 his old artist-friend William Glackens ...

Barnes amassed one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern European artwork—more Cézannes (69) and Renoirs (an ...

Art critic and biographer Blake Gopnik explores the intriguing history of the Barnes Foundation in an interview with Newsweek ...

Blake Gopnik wrote the biography "The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream" about the Philadelphia art collector. The Barnes Foundation opened to the public in Merion 100 years ago ...

Art aficionados who gravitate toward French impressionist, post-impressionist and early modernist works should visit the Barnes Foundation. The museum's permanent collection features paintings by ...