Barnard's Cloisters. Clippings and correspondence. [3:3], 1920-1922, undated

Comprised of clippings and correspondence, this scrapbook documents the positive publicity and praise for the "Cloisters," Barnard's personal museum of French Gothic art and architectural elements that he exhibited in a building he constructed on the northern reaches of New York City's Washington Heights area at Fort Washington Avenue and 181st Street. Several of the later clippings pertain to the sale of land adjacent to his museum, which dashed Barnard's vision to turn the area into an art acropolis, and to the possibility of his need to sell off his Medieval collection. That sale did occur three years after the completion of this scrapbook, with John D. Rockefeller, Jr. as the major buyer on behalf of the Metrolpolitan Museum of Art. Rockefeller also later financed the construction of what is still known today as the Cloisters to house his 600-piece purchase.