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 ...

Albert C. Barnes, left, and his friend William Glackens, the painter who taught him to love modern art, in about 1920.© Glackens Family Photographs, Barnes Foundation Archives ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Chemist and businessman Albert C. Barnes created his namesake foundation in 1922 to promote art education. Violette de Mazia started teaching at the foundation in 1926 and eventually became vice ...

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 ...