Passport photo of Dr. Albert C. Barnes, undated. Photograph Collection, Barnes Foundation Archives
About the Exhibition
During the years of the First World War (1914–1919), Albert C. Barnes strengthened his ties with American philosopher John Dewey and art collector and critic Leo Stein, two men who had already dramatically influenced his thinking about art and art education. Over the course of his life, Dewey and Stein would continue to inspire Dr. Barnes’s ideas about art and shape the evolution of his educational theories.