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Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: 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...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: 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...