| Description |
xiv, 237 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: This Paradise of Art -- CHAPTER ONE: Portrait of Dr. Barnes -- CHAPTER TWO: De Medici in Merion -- CHAPTER THREE: The Mysterious Miss de Mazia -- CHAPTER FOUR: Lincoln Takes Command -- CHAPTER FIVE: Meet Richard Glanton -- CHAPTER SIX: Into the Brightness of the Future -- CHAPTER SEVEN: The Subject Was Chest Hair -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Trying to Reform Richard |
| Summary |
"This is the story of how a fabled art foundation - the greatest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist art in America - came to be, and why it is now, thanks to more than a decade of legal squabbling, on the brink of financial collapse." -- Inside dust jacket |
| Subject |
Barnes, Albert C. (Albert Coombs), 1872-1951.
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Glanton, Richard.
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Barnes Foundation -- Management.
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Art -- Private collections -- Pennsylvania -- Merion.
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| LC no. |
2002154148 |
| ISBN |
0393048896 hardcover |
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