The renowned collection of Renoir, Cézanne and Picasso paintings at the Barnes Foundation was built on a silver protein solution, packaged in a tiny glass bottle and used to protect newborn infants ...

The Barnes Foundation is a gem of impressionist and early modernist art in central Philadelphia. Originally in suburban ...

Blake Gopnik wrote the biography "The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream" about the Philadelphia art collector. The Barnes Foundation opened to the public in Merion 100 years ago ...

This book recounts the turbulent history of the Barnes Foundation, outside Philadelphia, which administers a collection of art valued at more than $6-billion. The Pennsylvania nonprofit organization, ...

Founded by Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Barnes Foundation is an educational and cultural jewel on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Barnes Foundation attracts hundreds of thousands of people each year ...

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 ...

A gallery at the Barnes Foundation at its orginial location in Merion, Pennsylvania (photo by Tim Shaffer via latimes.com) Barnes ordered in his will that his collection, which includes works by ...