Albert barnes biography
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Albert C. Barnes
American art collector and educator (–)
For other people named Albert Barnes, see Albert Barnes (disambiguation).
Albert Coombs Barnes (January 2, – July 24, ) was an American chemist, businessman, art collector, writer, and educator, and the founder of the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Albert Coombs Barnes was born in Philadelphia on January 2, [4] to working-class parents. His father, butcher John J. Barnes, served in the American Civil War in Company D of the 82nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.[5] He lost his right arm at the Battle of Cold Harbor.[2]:&#;38&#; After the war John Barnes received a disability pension of $8/month, and took jobs such as inspector, night watchman,[6] and letter carrier when he could find them.[5] Albert Barnes' mother, Lydia A. Schaffer, was a devout Methodist who took him to Afr
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Dr. Barnes and the Hidden Treasure of Merion
Carl Van Vechten, c
Barnes Foundation Archives
Dr. Albert C. Barnes turned to the world of art after making his fortune in business.
On the fourth of December, , the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania granted a charter to a new, unique educational institution—The Barnes Foundation. Despite later being hailed as “one of the most striking things in America” by the artist Henri Matisse, and as, “the most beautiful homage, rendered in America, to French art” bygd Waldemar George, a critic on Polish and French art, the Barnes Foundation did not elude criticism or debate. The unconventional display of art was the subject of much controversy, as was the founder, Albert C. Barnes, who challenged both the presentation and study of art by other academics and intellectuals.
Born January 2, , Barnes grew up in the working-class community of Kensington, Philadelphia. In The Devil and Dr. Barnes: Portrait of an American Art Collector, Howard G
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Albert Barnes (theologian)
American clergyman and abolitionist
Albert Barnes (December 1, – December 24, )[1] was an American theologian, clergyman, abolitionist, temperance advocate, and author. Barnes is best known for his extensive Bible commentary and notes on the Old and New Testaments, published in a total of 14 volumes in the s.
Biography
[edit]Barnes was born in Rome, New York. He graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in , and from Princeton Theological Seminary in Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterianminister by the presbytery of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in , and was the pastor successively of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey (–), and of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (–).[2]
Barnes held a prominent place in the New School branch of the Presbyterians during the Old School-New School Controversy, to which he adhered on the division of the denomination in He had been tried (but not convicted) f