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Barnes Foundation
Judith Dolkart
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Description for Barnes Foundation
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 250 Colour. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 229 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1918.
The Barnes Foundation, established by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes in 1922, is home to a legendary art collection. Barnes assembled one of the world’s largest and finest groups of post-impressionist and early modern paintings, with holdings by such luminaries as Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine, Manet, Monet, Seurat, Degas, Van Gogh, and Gauguin.
The Foundation’s collection also holds significant examples of American art, including works by Demuth, Glackens, and the Prendergasts; African sculpture; Native American ceramics, jewelry, and textiles; Asian paintings, prints, and sculptures; medieval manuscripts and sculptures; Old Master paintings by El ... Read more
The Barnes Foundation, established by scientist, entrepreneur, and educator Dr. Albert C. Barnes in 1922, is home to a legendary art collection. Barnes assembled one of the world’s largest and finest groups of post-impressionist and early modern paintings, with holdings by such luminaries as Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine, Manet, Monet, Seurat, Degas, Van Gogh, and Gauguin.
The Foundation’s collection also holds significant examples of American art, including works by Demuth, Glackens, and the Prendergasts; African sculpture; Native American ceramics, jewelry, and textiles; Asian paintings, prints, and sculptures; medieval manuscripts and sculptures; Old Master paintings by El ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847838066
SKU
V9780847838066
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99-15
About Judith Dolkart
Judith F. Dolkart is chief curator of the Barnes Foundation. She is the author of James Tissot: The Life of Christ (2009). Martha Lucy is associate curator of the Barnes Foundation.
Reviews for Barnes Foundation
"The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks is the definitive guide to the Foundation, affordably priced to help make it accessible to the public. The cover pictures three objects—a Matisse painting, an African sculpture, and a key—suggesting the idiosyncratic nature of the collection, applied to a cloth cover that has the tactile quality of the galleries’ cloth-covered walls.” ~Pentagram “If you can’t ... Read more