Barnes amassed one of the world’s greatest private collections of modern European artwork—more Cézannes (69) and Renoirs (an ...

Ezra Pound described the scientist turned art collector Albert Barnes (1872-1951 ... Blake Gopnik’s entertaining biography of ...

Blake Gopnik wrote the biography "The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream" about the Philadelphia art collector. The Barnes Foundation opened to the public in Merion 100 years ago ...

Newsweek: What was the most surprising thing you learned while researching The Maverick's Museum? Gopnik: I guess I was most surprised by just how important [Albert] Barnes turns out to be in the ...

Biographer Gopnik (Warhol) draws on extensive research for this textured and energetic biography of Albert Barnes, the collector who founded the Barnes Foundation museum and helped reshape notions ...

“The Maverick’s Museum” is a new biography of the life of Albert Barnes, the pioneering Philadelphia collector of modern art, by New York art critic Blake Gopnik. (His 2020 biography of Andy ...

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THE MAVERICK’S MUSEUM: Albert Barnes and His American Dream, by Blake Gopnik Albert C. Barnes, among the first major American collectors of modern art, barrels onto the page in Blake Gopnik’s ...

The trust's extensive provisions are just an example of Barnes' quirky and often cantankerous nature. In his newest book, The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and his American Dream (Ecco), art ...

Albert C. Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation, was too large a character to be restrained by mortality. He and his collection have been the subject of a ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Albert C. Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation, was too large a character to be restrained by mortality. He and his collection have been the subject of a documentary and books ...