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Journal Article
The Origins of the Barnes Collection, 1912—15
2008
Overview
The author examines the American art collector Albert C. Barnes' collecting in the years 1912-1915, with a view to establishing how the works of four major artists - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse - came to form the pillars of the Barnes collection. He traces the influence on Barnes' thinking and taste of the artists William Glackens (1870-1938), Alfred Maurer (1868-1932), and of the writings of the art critic Julius Meier-Graefe (1867-1935), and goes on to argue that the overwhelming influence on Barnes was the art collector Leo Stein (1872-1947), brother and close associate of the writer Gertrude Stein. With reference to their correspondence, the author suggests that Stein's championing of Renoir, Cézanne, and the early work of Picasso and Matisse, his powerfully expressed pronouncements on aesthetics and psychology, strong opinions, and complex formulations challenged Barnes in a way no other figure could until Barnes fell under the influence of the philosopher John Dewey in 1917. (Quotes from original text)
Publisher
The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd
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