Wednesday, July 15, 2 – 3pm
Marsden Hartley. Flowerpiece (detail), 1916. The Barnes Foundation, BF2072
Free; registration required
About the Event
Members are invited to join us online for a tour devoted to the American artists in the Barnes collection.
The Barnes is often associated with French modern painting, but American artists are everywhere in the collection. Nearly a quarter of the works Dr. Albert Barnes acquired were made in the United States, by artists like Marsden Hartley, William Glackens, Charles Demuth, and Maurice Prendergast.
On this tour, you’ll trace how these artists appear across the galleries—sometimes in unexpected places—and how their work connects to the European paintings around them. Along the way, you’ll encounter furniture, metalwork, and objects made by Pennsylvania German makers and Indigenous artists of the American Southwest, all part of Barnes’s expansive view of creative expression.
As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, this tour offers a way to reflect on the many histories and perspectives that define American art.
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