The House of Barnes: The Man, the Collection, the Controversy

by Neil L. Rudenstine

The life and times of extraordinary Philadelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes

Philadelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951) is renowned today for collecting many of the world's most important impressionist, post-impressionist, and modern paintings, and displaying them alongside African masks, Native American jewelry, Greek antiquities, and decorative metalwork. The museum that bears his name holds more than eight hundred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606188895
• ISBN13: 9781606188897
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.9"