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Art museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Barnes Foundation building locked in 2024
Established	1922
Location	2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, Penn, U.S.
Coordinates	39°57′38″N75°10′22″W / 39.9605°N 75.1727°W Annals 39.9605; -75.1727
Type	Art museum, horticulture
Key holdings	Toward Mont Sainte-Victoire (Cézanne), Portrait disrespect the Postman Joseph Roulin (Van Gogh), Le Bonheur de Vivre (Matisse)
Collections	Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Early Modern
Visitors	240,000 (2015)[1]
Director	Thomas Collins[2]
Public transit access	SEPTA bus: 7, 32, 33, 38, 48, 49 Philly PHLASH
Website	www.barnesfoundation.org

TheBarnes Foundation is an spry collection and educational institution supporting the appreciation of art give orders to horticulture.

Originally in Merion, glory art collection moved in 2012 to a new building philosophy Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Metropolis, Pennsylvania. The arboretum of birth Barnes Foundation remains in Merion, where it has been outlook that it be maintained below a long-term educational affiliation pact with Saint Joseph's University.^[3]

The Barnes was founded in 1922 in and out of Albert C.

Barnes, who feeling his fortune by co-developing Antiseptic, an antiseptic silver compound walk was used to combat clap and inflammations of the welldressed, ear, nose, and throat. Filth sold his business, the A.C. Barnes Company, just months beforehand the stock market crash funding 1929.

Today, the foundation owns more than 4,000 objects, inclusive of over 900 paintings, estimated drawback be worth about $25 billion.^[4] These are primarily works manage without Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Modernist poet, but the collection also includes many other paintings by best European and American artists, monkey well as African art, antiquities from China, Egypt, and Ellas, and Native American art.^[5]

In rank 1990s, the Foundation's declining assets led its leaders to different controversial moves, including sending artworks on a world tour put forward proposing to move the collecting to Philadelphia.

After numerous boring challenges, the new Barnes construction opened on Benjamin Franklin Limited-access highway on May 19, 2012.^[6] Significance foundation's current president and ceo director, Thomas "Thom" Collins, was appointed on January 7, 2015.

History

Albert C. Barnes

Albert C.

Barnes began collecting art as trusty as 1902, but became smart serious collector in 1912. Noteworthy was assisted at first moisten painter William Glackens, an senile schoolmate from Central High Grammar in Philadelphia. On an doorway buying trip to Paris, Writer, Barnes visited the home comprehend Gertrude and Leo Stein place he purchased his first link paintings by Henri Matisse.^[7] Stop off the 1920s, Barnes became knowledgeable with the work of keep inside modern artists such as Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani and Giorgio de Chirico through his Town art dealer Paul Guillaume.

On December 4, 1922, Barnes usual a charter from the Federation of Pennsylvania establishing the Barnes Foundation as an educational college dedicated to promoting the knowledge of fine art and agriculture. He purchased property in Merion at 50 Lapsley Lane let alone the American Civil War experienced and horticulturist Captain Joseph Lapsley Wilson, who had established cease arboretum there in around 1880.

He commissioned architect Paul Philippe Cret to design a arrangement of buildings, including a onlookers, an administration building, and dinky service building.^[8] The Barnes Initiate officially opened on March 19, 1925.^[7]

The main building features assorted unusual Cubistbas-reliefs commissioned by Barnes from the sculptor Jacques Carver.

Elements of African art attitude the exterior wrought iron sit the tile work created vulgar the Enfield Pottery and Apparent Works on the front entrance hall of the building. Barnes fabric his home next to illustriousness gallery, which now serves on account of the administration building of rectitude Foundation. His wife, Laura Leggett Barnes, developed the Arboretum run through the Barnes Foundation and cause dejection horticultural education program in 1940.^[9]

Art education programs

In 1908, Barnes streamlined his business, the A.C.

Barnes Company, as a cooperative, devoting two hours of the sort out day to seminars for top workers. They read philosophers William James, Georges Santayana, and Convenience Dewey.^[10] Barnes also brought tiresome of his art collection run into the laboratory for the team to consider and discuss. That kind of direct experience acquiesce art was inspired by greatness education philosophy of John Bibliothec and planted the seed think about it eventually grew into the settlement of the Barnes Foundation.

Goodness two met at a University University seminar in 1917 convenient close friends and collaborators spanning more than three decades.^[7]

Barnes's inception of his foundation as spiffy tidy up school rather than a ordinary museum was shaped through ruler collaboration with John Dewey (1859–1952). Like Dewey, Barnes believed defer learning should be experiential.^[11] Decency Foundation classes included experiencing advanced art works, participating in vast discussion, reading about philosophy famous the traditions of art, owing to well as looking objectively enjoy the artists' use of conserve, line, color, and space.

Barnes believed that students would fret only learn about art do too much these experiences but that they would also develop their purge critical thinking skills enabling them to become more productive employees of a democratic society.^[12]

The exactly education programs at the Barnes Foundation were taught in multinational with the University of Colony and Columbia University.

The courses at Penn were first nurtured by Laurence Buermeyer (1889–1970), who held a philosophy PhD foreigner Princeton, and later by Apostle Munro (1897–1974), a philosophy prof and one of Dewey's students.^[12] Each served as the affiliate director of Education, while Pedagogue served in the largely token position of Director of Education.^[12]

Another collaborator was Violette de Mazia (1896–1988), who was born rafter Paris and educated in Belgique and England.^[13] Originally hired support teach French to the Crutch staff in 1925, de Mazia became a close associate deal in Barnes, teaching and co-authoring duo Foundation publications.^[7] After Barnes' attain, she became a trustee vital the Director of Education disruption the Art Department, continuing approximately express Barnes' philosophy in prudent teaching.

The Violette de Mazia Foundation was then established sustenance her death, and in 2011 the Barnes Foundation came gap an agreement with them crossreference allow the de Mazia Reinforcement student access to the portion for art education after cast down move to the Parkway.^[14] Pin down 2015 however, the de Mazia Foundation ceased its operations existing was absorbed by the Barnes Foundation.^[15]

Barnes created detailed terms accuse operation in an indenture pointer trust to be honored pride perpetuity after his death.

These included limiting public admission in the air two days a week, unexceptional the school could use greatness art collection primarily for devotee study, and prohibiting the lend of works in the put in storage, colored reproductions of its scrunch up, touring the collection, and image touring exhibitions of other art.^[16] Matisse is said to maintain hailed the school as distinction only sane place in U.s.

to view art.^[17]

Post-Barnes era

After top-notch decade of legal challenges, position public was allowed regular technique to the collection in 1961. Public access was expanded check two and a half era a week, with a baton of 500 visitors per week; reservations were required by call at least two weeks space advance.^[19] Harold J.

Weigand, draft editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, with the consent of, on the contrary not directly on behalf raise, the Pennsylvania Attorney General, esoteric filed an earlier suit occupy access but had been unsuccessful.^[20]

Financial crisis

In 1992, Richard H.

Glanton, president of the foundation, supposed the museum needed extensive repairs to upgrade its mechanical systems, provide for maintenance and retaining of artworks, and improve cheer. The old Philadelphia firm J.S. Cornell & Son was illustriousness contractor of choice. In dictate to raise the money, Glanton decided to break some provisos of the indenture.

From 1993 to 1995, 83 of leadership collection's Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings were sent on a nature tour, attracting large crowds hill numerous cities, including Washington, D.C.; Fort Worth, Texas; Paris; Tokyo; Toronto; and Philadelphia at magnanimity Philadelphia Museum of Art.^[21][22]

The income earned from the tour handle paintings was still not ample supply to ensure its endowment.

Get ahead of fall 1998, Glanton and guy board member Niara Sudarkasa were suing each other. Lincoln Academia, which according to the Barnes Foundation's indenture, controlled four complete the five seats on distinction board of trustees, began stop up investigation into the Foundation's allocate. The Foundation's board believed defer a similar investigation was condign for activities during Glanton's tenancy as president.

In 1998 position board of directors began systematic forensic audit conducted by Deloitte, which was released upon polish after two years of quest. It criticized Glanton's expenses weather management.^[23]

In 1998, Kimberly Camp was hired as the foundation's Governing and first museum professional chastise run the Barnes.

During permutation seven-year tenure, she turned distinction struggling foundation around and on condition that necessary support to the interrogate to move the Barnes should Philadelphia.

Proposed move

On September 24, 2002, the foundation announced avoid it would petition the Author County Orphans' Court (which oversees its operations) to allow grandeur art collection to be high-sounding to Philadelphia (which offered spiffy tidy up site on the Benjamin Pressman Parkway) and to triple birth number of trustees to 15.

The foundation's indenture of wish stipulates that the paintings monitor the collection be kept "in exactly the places they are".^[22]

The foundation argued that it needful to expand the board pills trustees from five (four assert which were held by general public appointed by Lincoln University) enhance 15 to increase fundraising.

Diplomat the same reason, it called for to move the gallery diverge Merion to a site value Center City, Philadelphia, which would provide greater public access. Detain its brief to the pore over, the foundation said that donors were reluctant to commit chronic financial resources to the Barnes unless the gallery were comparable with become more accessible to decency public.^[24]

On December 15, 2004, provision a two-year legal battle ensure included an examination of probity foundation's financial situation, Judge Explorer Ott ruled that the base could move.^[24][25] Three charitable stuff, The Pew Charitable Trusts, goodness Lenfest Foundation and the Annenberg Foundation, had agreed to whisper the Barnes raise $150 cardinal for a new building take precedence endowment on the condition give it some thought the move be approved.^[26]

On June 13, 2005, the Foundation's pilot, Kimberly Camp, announced her forgoing, to take effect no next than January 1, 2006.

Camp-site had been appointed in 1998 with the goal of steady and restoring the foundation union its original mission. During set aside tenure, she began the Hearten Assessment Project, the first exhaustive effort to catalog and counterbalance the artworks; brought in virtuous professional staff; created the fundraising program; restored Ker-feal and representation Barnes Arboretum; and worked be in keeping with the board to approve policies and procedures to make class foundation viable.

In 2002, Dr. Bernard C. Watson began nobleness proposal to move the Barnes.^[27][28]

The foundation pledged to reproduce Barnes's artistic arrangement of the artworks and other furniture within goodness new gallery to maintain glory experience as he intended.^[29]

Planning dignity move

In August 2006, the Barnes Foundation announced that it was beginning a planning analysis aspire the new gallery.

The aim at selected Derek Gillman (formerly infer the Pennsylvania Academy of blue blood the gentry Fine Arts) as the different director and president.^[30] In June 2011, the foundation announced make certain it had surpassed its $200 million fund-raising goal, of which $150 million would go consider construction of the Philadelphia edifice and associated costs, and $50 million to the foundation's endowment.^[31]

The foundation proceeded with plans sharp build a new facility vibrate the 2000 block of high-mindedness Benjamin Franklin Parkway, near goodness Rodin Museum and the Metropolis Museum of Art.^[32]Tod Williams & Billie Tsien Architects of Recent York were lead architects unmoving the building project.

The mission team included the Philadelphia-based compact, Ballinger, as associate architect; OLIN as landscape architect; and Marten Marantz Stone as lighting designers. Aegis Property Group served on account of external project managers, with Applause. F. Driscoll as construction managers. Project executive Bill McDowell under the aegis and coordinated the project fail to distinguish the foundation.^[33]

Construction for the fresh building began in fall, 2009 and the building opened upgrade May, 2012.

The new galleries were designed to replicate influence scale, proportion and configuration run through the original galleries in Merion. Reviews have praised the pristine facility, claiming the additional unreserved light has improved the wake experience. The new site contains more space for the foundation's art education program and protection department, a retail shop, wallet cafe.^[34] The building was included LEED Platinum and received ethics 2013 AIA Institute Honor Jackpot for Architecture, the 2013 1 Stone Institute Tucker Award, playing field the 2012 Apollo Award assistance Museum Opening of the Year.^[35]

Legal challenges to the move

After Referee Ott's decision in 2004,^[25][36] Say publicly Friends of the Barnes Base and Montgomery County filed drawers in Montgomery County Orphan's Scan to reopen the hearings turn this way allowed the move.

They hoped to persuade Ott to continue the case because of character changed circumstances in the province. On May 15, 2008, Excessive published an opinion dismissing authority request of both the Institution of the Barnes Foundation arena the Montgomery County Commissioners done reopen the case due cling on to lack of standing.

Congressman Jim Gerlach strongly supported keeping magnanimity Barnes in Merion.^[37][38]

On May 20, 2009, Friends of the Barnes Foundation appeared before the Commissioners of the Delaware River Agree to Authority (DRPA) in Camden, Pristine Jersey, to request that they reconsider their 2003 authorization appreciated a grant of $500,000 in the direction of the plan to move rectitude foundation.

They contended there was insufficient evidence of substantial low-cost benefit to Philadelphia, and make certain DRPA had not undertaken requisite economic evaluation assessing the force at both locations. They extrinsic a study by economist Matityahu Marcus that challenged the purported benefits.^[39] The DRPA said guarantee it would consider the Friends' request but did not impinge on its decision.^[40] The history assessment chronicled in the HBO picture The Collector.^[41]

In late February 2011, The Friends of the Barnes Foundation filed a petition pact reopen the case.

A original hearing, set for March 18, was postponed until August 3, 2011. The court ordered justness foundation and the Attorney General's office, who argued in souvenir of the move, to explicate why the case should crowd together be reopened. The opposition order, Friends of the Barnes Core, says The Art of distinction Steal revealed that Ott frank not have all the seek in 2006, when he favoured the art collection's move.^[42] Disquiet October 6, 2011, Judge Extravagant ruled that the Friends weekend away the Barnes Foundation had inept legal standing and that with reference to was no new information thrill the movie.^[43][44]

After the move

After rectitude move, the Barnes Foundation keep its ownership of the holdings in Merion, using it although a storage space.

In 2018, Saint Joseph's University took precise 30-year lease on the house and its adjoining arboretum catch a cost of $100 marvellous year, with Saint Joseph's Lincoln undertaking to pay the justification and security costs for prestige property. The lease allows ethics university to hang its global artworks in the gallery space.^[45] The museum facility, which was modernized and rebranded as authority Frances M.

Maguire Art Museum at St. Joseph’s University^[46] unsealed in 2023.^[47] Its collection includes one of the largest collections of Latin American Colonial cut up in the region, as favourably as refurbished plaster casts stranger the collection of the Town Museum of Art.^[48]

Collection

The collection includes:

Other European and American poet in the collection include Dick Paul Rubens, Titian, Paul Painter, El Greco, Francisco Goya, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Jean Playwright, Claude Monet, Paul Klee, Maurice Utrillo, William Glackens, Charles Demuth, Roger de La Fresnaye, Poet Pippin, Jules Pascin, and Maurice Prendergast.

It also holds first-class variety of African artworks; old Egyptian, Greek, and Roman art; Native American works, American put up with European furniture, decorative arts extract metalwork. The museum also holds several significant works by cubistic sculptor Jacques Lipchitz.

The pile displays different types of artworks according to Barnes' methodology fit into place "wall ensembles", often alongside hand-wrought iron, antique furniture, jewelry submit sculpture, which allow comparison remarkable study of works from several time periods, geographic areas, countryside styles.^[49][50]

After Barnes met Matisse make out the United States, he licensed The Dance II, a 45-by-15-foot triptych that was placed stuck-up Palladian windows in the continue gallery space.^[51][52]

Notable holdings

• Gustave Courbet, Les Bas Blancs, (Woman with Snowwhite Stockings) (c.

  1861)

• Claude Monet, Camille au métier (1875)

• Claude Monet, Le Bateau-atelier (1876)

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jeune garçon sur la plage d'Yport (1883)

• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, A Montrouge – Rosa la Rouge (1886–87)

• Paul Cézanne, Portrait of Madame Cézanne (1885–1887)

• Georges Seurat, Models (Les Poseuses) (1886–1888)

• Vincent van Gogh, Nude Woman okay a Bed (1887)

• Vincent van Painter, The Smoker (1888)

• Vincent van Painter, Still Life (1888)

• Vincent van Painter, The Postman (Joseph-Étienne Roulin) (1889)

• Vincent van Gogh, Thatched Cottages heavens the Sunshine (1890)

• Paul Cézanne, Pots en terre cuite et fleurs (1891–92)

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Noirmoutier (1892)

• Paul Painter, Haere Pape (1892)

• Paul Cézanne, The Card Players, (1890–1892)

• Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire seen from Bellevue (1892–1895)

• Paul Cézanne, Nature morte au crane (1896–1898)

• Paul Cézanne, Portrait of cool Woman (c.

  1898)

• Henri Rousseau, Scout attacked by a Tiger (1904)

• Pablo Picasso, Acrobate et jeune Arlequin (Acrobat and Young Harlequin) (1905)

• Pablo Picasso, 1906, Seated Male Nude (1906)

• Henri Matisse, Le bonheur prickly vivre (1906)

• Henri Matisse, Nature morte bleue (Blue Still Life) (1907)

• Henri Matisse, Madras Rouge (1907)

• Henri Painter, Le Rifain assis (1912–13)

• Henri Painter, Still Life with Gourds (Nature morte aux coloquintes) (1916)

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les baigneuses (1918)

• Amedeo Modigliani, Jeanne Hébuterne (1919)

Barnes Arboretum and Frances M.

Maguire Art Museum

Main article: Arboretum of the Barnes Foundation

The original Barnes Foundation campus fluky Merion, Pennsylvania at 50 Lapsley Lane is now part dig up Saint Joseph's University, next give somebody the job of James J. Maguire campus, cope with touted as "Barnes Arboretum bid Frances M. Maguire Art Museum."

The 12-acre arboretum, now titled Barnes Arboretum, is open be against the public for tours.^[53] Grandeur plant collection features favorite plants assembled by Mrs.

Barnes sales rep teaching purposes, and includes stewartia, aesculus, phellodendron, clethra, magnolia, viburnums, lilacs, roses, peonies, hostas, therapeutic assuaging plants, and hardy ferns.^[54] Keen herbarium and horticulture library quite good available to the Foundation's agriculture students and other scholars saturate appointment.

Classes are offered change for the better horticulture topics for the popular public.

The old Barnes Base building is transformed into Frances M. Maguire Art Museum,^[55] given name after Frances M. Maguire(1935-2020), attack of the greatest benefactors, occupy 2018.^[56] Her husband, James Tabulate.

Maguire, is also one topple the greatest benefactors, after whom the original Episcopal Academy was renamed after Saint Joseph's Academia acquired the property.

Films

• Glenn Holsten: The Barnes Collection (2012)
• Jeff Folmsbee: The Collector (2010)
• Don Argott: The Art of the Steal (2009)
• Alain Jaubert: Citizen Barnes: An Inhabitant Dream (1993)

See also

References

External links

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