The Barnes Exhibit

Tonight, PBS will be airing a show featuring the Barnes Exhibit.

Though he grew up in a working-class family, Albert Coombs Barnes achieved much success after attaining his medical degree when he went into chemistry and pharmaceuticals, developing Argyrol, an antiseptic silver compound used to prevent blindness in infants and also used as an anit-gonorrhea drug. As his company grew, Barnes began to collect art from around the world. He also developed theories about how art influenced learning. Barnes made quite a lot of money when he sold his company. In 1922, he established the Barnes Foundation, an institution dedicated to promoting the advancement of both education and appreciation of the fine arts.

Today the exhibit contains more than 2,500 art pieces. The collection is filed with outstanding pieces of work by some of the most influential artists in history.

For more information about the Barnes Exhibit, please visit the Barnes Foundation website at: http://www.barnesfoundation.org/

Below are just a few paintings included in the exhibit.

Amedeo Modigliani Jeanne Hebuterne

 

Claude Monet Camille au metier

Georges Seurat Two Sailboats at Grandcamp

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec A Montrouge Rosa

Henri Matisse The Music Lesson

Henri Rousseau Éclaireurs attaqués par un tigre

Honore Daumier Les Ribaudes

Pablo Picasso Jeune femme tenant une cigarette

Paul Cezanne Léda au cygne

Auguste Renoir Before the Bath