The House of Barnes

Contents
Acknowledgments........................................................................ ix
Foreword by Yve-Alain Bois.......................................................... xi
Preface to the New Edition by Neil L. Rudenstine .............................xv
Chapter 1 Latch’s Lane ......................................................... 1
Chapter 2 Mr. Barnes ........................................................... 3
Chapter 3 Collectors and Collecting..................................... 23
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Painting ...................23
Barnes as a Collector ........................................................44
Late Renoir: Sanctuary and Elysium.................................62
Chapter 4 The Many or the Few: Art and Education in England
and America....................................................... 67
Art for the People: England..............................................67
American Echoes ..............................................................72
Art for the Few: France and England ...............................76
Chapter 5 Formalism: Rival Aesthetic Theories..................... 85
Fry and Formalism............................................................85
The Art in Painting ......................................................96
Chapter 6 Science and Objectivity in Art.............................105
Objectivity......................................................................105
Painting and Meaning.....................................................110
Chapter 7 The Foundation .................................................117
Genesis ...........................................................................117
Exodus............................................................................126
Misalliance ......................................................................133
Denouement...................................................................141
Siege...............................................................................147
Chapter 8 Doomed by Indenture ........................................151
Chapter 9 Mr. Glanton ......................................................157
Chapter 10 Dr. Watson .......................................................167
Dr. Bernard Watson and Merion....................................167
Whose Education? ..........................................................171
Whose Barnes? ...............................................................174
Chapter 11 The Court and the Case .....................................179
Judge Ott........................................................................179
Takeover? .......................................................................186
One Upon Whom Nothing Is Lost................................193
Selected Sources Consulted by the Author ..................................197
Index..................................................................................... 203
Photograph Credits.................................................................... 229