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Albert Barnes was a complex man. He had deep respect for African-Americans, and in his will left his Foundation to be administered by Lincoln University, a traditionally black college. But he sometimes made disparaging remarks about blacks, as he tended to do about all groups. He had a remarkable inferiority complex, yet he could ... be extremely perceptive. Many painters – even those who despised him as a person – respected his sensitivity to their work. He was a lover of democracy who ran his company like a tyrant. He was an advocate for the common man who led a highly unconventional life.
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One recent example of a widely held misconception about the Barnes' aesthetic philosophy is voiced by Daniel Levy, in Time magazine, when he asserts that Albert Barnes "replaced factual art history with a photo—New Age veneration of beauty" (1992, p. 87). Levy's allegation that the Barnes' method is a "proto New Age veneration of beauty" — whatever that is — indicates that he is ignorant of the Barnes' philosophy of art, for the writings of Albert Barnes and those at the Foundation, as well as what is taught in the Barnes' art appreciation courses do not support such a position.
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The Barnes Foundation has had many hardships over the years, and will soon be moved to a new location. Freethinkers who have the chance to see it before the move should certainly do so: for a little while yet you can still experience the art collection of this idiosyncratic man as he meant it be seen.
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Note 1: The current controversy centers on the Barnes Foundation's 1922 Indenture of Trust and its ByLaws, with its subsequent Articles, Paragraphs, and amendments which impose great constraints on those who are designated as the caretakers of the Barnes legacy. The present trustees of the Barnes Foundation have challenged the trust and petitioned the court to override some of those constraints such as: selling some of the paintings; increasing public access; changing the institution's conservative investment policy; raising the price of the admission fee to the gallery; using the gallery for social functions; and sending a large group of paintings on a world tour. Two factions have developed in the controversy: the Barnes loyalists who are committed to preserving the educational program for which the Foundation was created; and the trustees who are intent on generating capital to modernize the institution's physical plant, making it financially prosperous, and opening the famed collection to greater access. [return]
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Overall... Argyrol was safe, and Barnes amassed a great fortune. He began to invest in art, preferring his own judgment to that of the art critics. He created the Barnes Foundation in the 1920s to further the cause of art appreciation. His art collection is today considered one of the most important private collections in the world. (These days, the Barnes Foundation, which now owns the collection, is running out of money.)
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At the heart of the discord were limits put on the operation of the foundation's art-appreciation school and gallery, both by Dr. Barnes and by local authorities. The foundation's management, board members, former art students, and neighbors have clashed repeatedly over their differing interpretations of the legacy of Dr. Barnes, who died in 1951.
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