Friday, May 10, 12 – 1pm
Pablo Picasso. Young Woman Holding a Cigarette (detail), 1901. BF318. © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Free; registration required.
About the Talk
Alison Boyd: “The Barnes Foundation’s Prehistory: Picasso and Renoir on the Factory Walls”
On-Site & Online Talk | Member Appreciation Days
In 1925, construction on the Barnes Foundation in Merion, PA, was completed, and the building opened to the public. But where did Dr. Barnes hang his art collection before his custom-built gallery? Not at his home in Chester County but on the walls of his pharmaceutical factory in West Philadelphia. Paintings were displayed during daily classes that Dr. Barnes and his staff taught to factory employees. This exclusive talk reveals even more about the surprising roots of Dr. Barnes’s education program, his involvement with Harlem Renaissance artists and intellectuals, and his engagement with a working-class African American political club in Philadelphia.
Members are invited to join us in the Comcast NBCUniversal Auditorium on the Lower Level at the Barnes or online via livestream. Online registrants will be emailed a link to access the talk on Thursday, May 9.
Pablo Picasso. Young Woman Holding a Cigarette, 1901. BF318. © 2024 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
About the Speaker
Alison Boyd
Boyd is director of research and interpretation at the Barnes. She studies the intersection of multiple modernisms in American and European art in the first half of the 20th century, with a focus on the arts of the African diaspora and the politics of museum display. Boyd contributed to the 2023 publication The Barnes Then and Now: Dialogues on Education, Installation, and Social Justice.
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