The Barnes Foundation now has it world-famous collection of Impressionist paintings in place, and will finally restore them to public view this weekend. The new galleries are exact re-creations of the ...
One of the world’s most astounding art collections was only recently made more accessible to the public, and a new film, "The Barnes Collection," gives further insight into the life of Albert C.
When the pharmaceuticals magnate Albert Barnes died in 1951, he left his art collection in trust with a rigid stipulation: that it remain exactly as it hung in a jam-packed building in Lower Merion, ...
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 ...
The art collection at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation just got a little easier to see. The museum has announced a new Open Access program that will provide unprecedented access to its holdings by ...
Albert C. Barnes, c. 1920–25 (image via the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress, no known restrictions on publication) The quality and quantity of art at Philadelphia’s Barnes ...
Visitors to the galleries of the Barnes Foundation are often so engrossed in the complicated arrangement of the masterpieces on the walls, they fail to look at the floor. The parquet flooring is ...
Were Albert C. Barnes alive, the plan to move his art collection from its home in suburban Merion, Pa., to downtown Philadelphia would have made him erupt in one of his famous rages. The argument that ...
MERION, Pennsylvania (voa) – The Barnes Collection art gallery, located just outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has the largest private collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in ...
The richness and the eccentricity of the Barnes Collection is legendary; its unequaled concentration of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings far exceeds the number in any major art museum.
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’s jaw-dropping ...
We just spent 10 days in NYC and went to Philadelphia for a few days. Stayed with a friend who had reserved tickets for us for the Barnes Collection. The collection is a must for anyone interested in ...