Neil L. Rudenstine graduated from Princeton University (1956), was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, earned his PhD in English Literature at Harvard, and remained on Harvard's faculty until 1968. After two decades as Professor, Dean, and Provost at Princeton, he was President of Harvard University from 1991 to 2001. He was a trustee of the Barnes Foundation and was chair of the boards of ARTstor, the New York Public Library, the Rockefeller Archive Center, as well as vice-chair of the board of the J. Paul Getty Trust. His several books include Sidney's Poetic Development; English Poetic Satire (with G. S. Rousseau); In Pursuit of the PhD (with W. G. Bowen); and Pointing Our Thoughts. He lives in Massachusetts.

Yve-Alain Bois is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. A specialist in twentieth-century European and American art, Bois is recognized as an expert on a wide range of artists, from Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso to Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, and Ellsworth Kelly. He has curated and co-curated a number of influential exhibitions, including Piet Mondrian, A Retrospective (1994); L'informe, mode d'emploi (1996); Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry (1999); and Picasso Harlequin 1917-1937 (2008). His books include Ellsworth Kelly: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Reliefs, and Sculpture: Vol. 1, 1940-1953 (2015); Matisse in the Barnes Foundation (2015); Art Since 1900 (with Benjamin Buchloh, Hal Foster, and Rosalind Krauss, 2004); Matisse and Picasso (1998); Formless: A User's Guide (with Rosalind Krauss, 1997); and Painting as Model (1990). Bois is currently working on several long-term projects, foremost among them the five-volume catalogue raisonné of Ellsworth Kelly's paintings and sculptures.

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