The maverick's museum Albert Barnes and his American dream
From prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling new portrait of America's first great collector of modern art, Albert Coombs Barnes. Raised in a Philadelphia slum shortly after the Civil War, Barnes rose to earn a medical degree and then made a fortune from a pioneering antisept...
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New York, NY :
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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