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‘Art is no trivial matter’: the Barnes Foundation Archives and Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Barbara Beaucar ,
Adrienne Pruitt  and
Katy Rawdon
Katy Rawdon*
Affiliation:
The Barnes Foundation, 300 North Latch’s Lane, Merion, PA 19066-1759, USA
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Email: krawdon@barnesfoundation.org
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The Barnes Foundation is an educational institution located near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Foundation’s world-renowned art collection and its twelve-acre arboretum serve its mission to promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of fine arts and horticulture, through classes and workshops held in the Gallery and the Arboretum. The staff of the Foundation’s long-neglected archives and library is in the process of organizing and cataloguing its collections, and has recently completed a major grant-funded project to create finding aids for several of them.

‘[A]rt is no trivial matter, no device for the entertainment of dilettantes, or upholstery for the houses of the wealthy, but a source of insight into the world, for which there is and can be no substitute, and in which all persons who have the necessary insight may share.’ – Albert C. Barnes, Preface to Art and education (Merion, Pennsylvania: The Barnes Foundation Press, 1929), vi.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , 2008 , pp. 22 - 27
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2008

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References

1. http://www.barnesfoundation.org/ead/CFC_frameset.html.Google Scholar
2. Barnes, Albert C. and de Mazia, Violette, ‘Drawing,’ in the corrected draft typescript of ‘The French primitives and their forms from their origin to the end of the fifteenth century,’ August 1930, The Barnes Foundation Archives, Merion, Pennsylvania.Google Scholar
3. Barnes, Albert C. and de Mazia, Violette, The art of Cézanne (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939), viii.Google Scholar
4. http://www.barnesfoundation.org/des_collections.html.Google Scholar
5. http://www.barnesfoundation.org/finding_aids_index.html.Google Scholar