Blake Gopnik, author of 'The Maverick's Museum,' on the contradictory life and legacy of the man behind the world-famous ...
In “The Maverick’s Museum,” Blake Gopnik presents the contradictory, intriguing, infuriating man behind the Barnes Collection ...
Art critic Blake Gopnik spent hundreds of hours immersed in Barnes’s archives. The result is 'The Maverick’s Museum: Albert ...
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A New Albert Barnes Biography Portrays a Cantankerous CollectorBlake Gopnik's book foregrounds the democratic yet complicated ethos underpinning Barnes's involvement in Impressionim and the Harlem Renaissance.
His talent for pharmaceutical chemistry made him rich. His bold taste in paintings created the foundation for America’s most ...
Barnes amassed one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern European artwork—more Cézannes (69) and Renoirs (an ...
The Barnes Foundation opened to the public in Merion 100 years ... and Modiglianis before most Americans recognized their value and paired them on his mansion’s walls with African art, and household ...
plus an impressive mix of African art, wrought-iron metalwork, Native American pottery and more. But here's why the Barnes Foundation is so unique: Even if all of the above terms and names sound ...
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