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Barnes, Albert Coombs

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Barnes, Albert Coombs: see Barnes Foundation Albert Coombs Barnes, 1872–1951, a wealthy Philadelphia physician, patent-medicine inventor, and pharmaceutical manufacturer. Introduced to art by a schoolmate, the painter William Glackens, Barnes acquired thousands of works of art and objects.
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Barnes, Albert Coombs (1872–1951) pharmacologist, art collector; born in Philadelphia. He studied at Philadelphia Medical School (M.D. 1892), and interned at the State Hospital of the Insane, Warren, Pa. After study and travel in Europe, he devoted himself to chemical research, developing a new antiseptic, Argyrol (1902), that made him a fortune. By 1905 he began collecting late-19th- and early-20th-century French art, wrote several books on art, and in 1922 established the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., where he housed his collection. Dogmatic in his ideas about art, and ornery in his dealings with art professionals, he allowed only a select few individuals to view his collection during his lifetime.


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