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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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The maverick's museum : |b Albert Barnes and his American dream / |c Blake Gopnik |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, |c [2025] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2025 | |
| 300 | |a 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; |b illustrations, map ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue -- Civil War, Childhood, Methodism -- The neck, Central High -- Medical School, Germany, Mulford -- Wedding, Argyrol, Marketing -- Bribes, Lawsuit, The Main Line -- Collecting, Glackens, Paris -- A buying spree -- Collecting mania -- Armory show, John Quinn, Vituperations -- Cultural ascent, American moderns, Judging art -- Dewey -- Democracy and education -- Factory life, Worker education -- Buermeyer, Practical psychology, A murder case -- War, A Polish study -- Wealth, Renoir and Cezanne -- Buying American, Art in the factory -- Philadelphia philistines, Birth of the foundation -- Planning a foundation, Young art in Paris -- Paul Guillaume -- De Chirico, Modigliani, Soutine, A first exhibition -- African art, Black culture -- Black rights, Black education -- New buildings, The collection -- The foundation opens, Education and the art in painting -- Democratic aesthetics, Form and meaning -- Universities, Thomas Munro, Europe, Cezanne and Seurat, Art education -- Failed alliances, 'The girls' and De Mazia, Demonstrations -- Ejecting elites, Fine Scotch -- The negro center, Foundation fellowships, Henry Hart -- Deaths, Zonite, Returning an O'Keeffe -- The dance, A double cross?, A Matisse book -- Great Depression, Art as experience, Renior -- Vollard, Cezanne's Bathers -- Crafts, Horace Pippin -- Ker-Feal, The Arboretum, Bertrand Russell -- The Saturday Evening Post, Firing Russell -- Failures, War -- Penn Redux, Haverford, Penn again, Sarah Lawrence, Lincoln University -- The end -- Epilogue -- A note on sources -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a 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 antiseptic treatment for newborns. Never losing sight of the working-class neighbors of his youth, Barnes became a ruthless advocate for their rights and needs. His vast art collection -- 181 Renoirs, 69 Cézannes, 59 Matisses, 46 Picassos -- was dedicated to enriching their cultural lives. A miner was more likely to get access than a mine owner. Gopnik's meticulous research reveals Barnes as a fierce advocate for the egalitarian ideals of his era's progressive movement. But while his friends in the movement worked to reshape American society, Barnes wanted to transform the nation's aesthetic life, taking art out of the hands of the elite and making it available to the average American. The Maverick's Museum offers a vivid picture of one of America's great eccentrics. The sheer ferocity of Barnes's democratic ambitions left him with more enemies than allies among people of all classes, but for a circle of intimates, he was a model of intelligence, generosity, and loyalty. In this compelling portrait, Gopnik reveals a life shaped by contradictions, one that left a lasting impact. -- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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