Through the invention of argyrol, Dr. Albert C. Barnes bought an unparalleled art collection of Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso paintings. It formed the basis of the Barnes ...

When he felt that a hail of profanity and slurs didn’t suffice, Albert C. Barnes signed letters to perceived foes with his dog’s name, Fidèle. That tic and the enmity behind it became famous ...

MERION, Pennsylvania (voa) – The Barnes Collection art gallery, located just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has the largest private collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist ...

The way she looked at the Barnes collection really inspired Sidney Rothberg to do so with his own collection.” Raphael Chatroux, head of the American art department at Freeman’s Hindman auction house, ...

The Barnes Foundation along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year. Among the 4,000 works of art is an unparalleled collection of French art.

Mr. Gopnik, previously the art critic at the Washington Post and the author of a 2020 biography of Andy Warhol, suggests that Barnes was saved by his admission to Central High School.

Albert C. Barnes used the fortune he amassed from his invention of the antiseptic Argyrol to amass one of the world’s preeminent collections of post-Impressionist and Modernist art. Valued at $6 ...

A judge allowed the Philadelphia institution to lend paintings from the storied collection of Dr. Albert C. Barnes. It will look and behave a lot more like a global museum. By Ted Loos Isaac ...

PHILADELPHIA The Barnes Foundation is no longer the greatest art collection you ll never see. Art aficionados and academics might never stop debating whether Dr. Albert C. Barnes jaw-dropping cache ...

Dr. Barnes was an advocate for racial equality well ahead of his time. Posted August 11, 2020 THE BASICS Portrait of Dr. Albert C. Barnes, 1926, by Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) ...

Albert C. Barnes, a doctor and pharmaceutical manufacturer who amassed the collection in the early 20th century, stipulated that the collection remain exactly as Barnes left it when he died in ...

Article on battle over art collection worth billions bequeathed by patent medicine millionaire Albert C Barnes to Pennsylvania's Lincoln University in 1951; Barnes Foundation has pleaded ...