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Barnes Foundation

 Organization

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Barnes Foundation, 1933-1937

 File — Box: 26, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...
Dates: 1933-1937

Barnes Foundation

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...
Dates: 1923-1926; Majority of material found within 1925-1926

Barnes Foundation, 1938

 File — Box: 39, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Series: Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...
Dates: 1938

Barnes Foundation, 1983-2007

 Sub-Series
Scope and Contents The Barnes Foundation holds one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, as well as African sculpture and early American decorative art. Established in 1922 by Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872-1951), the Foundation's art gallery was housed for nearly nine decades in a granite mansion Barnes built in 1925 in Merion, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia. Barnes's residence was part of the complex, all of which sat on the 12-acre arboretum that...
Dates: 1983-2007

Barnes Foundation, 1948

 File — Box: 55, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...
Dates: 1948

Barnes Foundation. Charter and deed, 1952

 File — Box: 79, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series: Comprising the largest portion of the Fiske Kimball Records, this series clearly documents Kimball's extensive contact with the institutions, individuals, and businesses that collectively directed and promoted art and artists, and a public appreciation for both. Kimball cultivated a variety of correspondents, from dealers and donors to museums, educational institutions and professional organizations. Throughout the three decades documented, antiques and art dealers appear to be Kimball's...
Dates: 1952