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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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2025]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
