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Fall #BarnesClasses are now open for enrollment 📢 We’re excited to present a diverse array of class topics, perfect for everyone from the art-knowledgeable to the art-curious 🖼️ Take a closer look at how artists like Manet and Matisse redefined color and its use in modern art or examine the connections between painting and poetry and how they communicate an artist’s philosophy, desires, or cultural orientation. Study Cézanne’s influence on European modernism and trace the development of his visual language or delve into the life and work of Van Gogh, one of the greatest, and most mythologized, painters of the modern era. Or dive into the art and history of miniatures and learn what compels artists to make works on such a tiny scale, and why humans have been fascinated by them for centuries. And so much more! 🥳 Classes take place on-site at the Barnes, and online via our innovative learning platform that allows you to get up close to artworks in ways that can’t be experienced in person 😎 Barnes classes will: ✔️ Sharpen your observational and critical thinking skills. ✔️ Improve your ability to communicate about art. ✔️ Deepen your appreciation for cultures and histories outside your own. Check out all our classes and enroll today – there’s still time to register for July and August classes too! 🔗 https://bit.ly/3WcTtVU Scholarships are available 🎓 🎨 Paul Cézanne. Still Life, 1892–94. The Barnes Foundation, BF910. Public Domain.

📢 Announcing our 2024 Everyday Places Artist Partnerships cohort 📢 Barnes West launched Everyday Places Artist Partnerships in 2021 to provide West Philadelphia residents with spaces to co-create with multidisciplinary artistic projects that offer inspiration and promote hope and healing. This year’s cohort of #BarnesWest artists will partner with “everyday” locations in the neighborhood to build interactive, participatory projects that engage with the business or site and residents 🎨🏘️ Here’s who’s coming to your neighborhood this summer! 😎 Irene Osorio at Dyke+ ArtHaus 👚 Osorio (she/her) will lead a series of sustainability-focused mending workshops at Dyke+ ArtHaus, a community-driven, feminist home for queer and lesbian artists of West Philadelphia. Osorio’s workshops will allow neighbors and residents to drop in to repair, mend, or upcycle clothing, fabrics, and other items. Qiaira Riley & Yannick Lowery at The Arts League 🍽️ Multidisciplinary artists Riley (she/her) and Lowery (he/him) will work as an artist collective to lead a series of interdisciplinary workshops and community meals at The Arts League. Titled “Shaking the Table,” the series will explore the collective and personal relationships people have with Black ephemera and popular culture through art making and food. Lori Waselchuk at Writers Room 📸 Photographer and educator Waselchuk (she/her) will partner with Drexel’s Writers Room to organize and facilitate community photography workshops and a photo walk that highlights neighborhood leaders, amplifies local knowledge, and documents community-building. She will collaborate with community organizers and a hyperlocal mutual-aid project to capture and share current happenings in West Philly. More details about projects, dates, and times will be available soon on our website 🔗 https://bit.ly/3VJ4luD 📸 2024 Everyday Places artists, from left: Yannick Lowery, Qiaira Riley, Lori Waselchuk, and Irene Osorio

The Barnes Foundation was chartered in 1922 with concepts of democracy, experimentation, and education at its core. Education & Empowerment: Scholarship Recipients at the Barnes Foundation, 1927 – 1949 draws on archival materials to highlight the diverse experiences of four individuals who had their education supported by Barnes Foundation scholarships in the first half of the 20th century: trailblazing art historian Paul B. Moses; singer and musician Ablyne Lockhart; civic leader, medical doctor, and military officer Dr. DeHaven Hinkson; and Harlem Renaissance painter Aaron Douglas. See this unique exhibition in our lower lobby through September 16, or explore online 🔗 https://bit.ly/450WSdg 📸: (cover) Paul B. Moses at his lecture on Matisse for University of Chicago alumni at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1966. From the collection of Michael A. Moses

Did you know? 💡 The Barnes collection is home to 59 works by Henri #Matisse—including the monumental, custom-made commission The Dance, and the jaw-dropping, iconic fauvist painting The Joy of Life—and 181 (‼️) works by Pierre-Auguste #Renoir, an influential artist of his time whose paintings can sometimes be polarizing for today’s contemporary audiences. But why was Albert Barnes so obsessed with these artists—Renoir in particular? Who else was collecting Matisse in the 1910s, ’20s, and ’30s? How did Dr. Barnes and Violette de Mazia incorporate Matisse and Renoir into their teachings? 🤔 In a one-day workshop, taking place on-site at the Barnes—directly in front of and surrounded by a selection of paintings in our summer exhibition Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes—we’ll look closely at large-scale works like Mussel-Fishers at Berneval, The Joy of Life, and The Music Lesson, literally in a new light. Exclusive access to original archival documents during this workshop will help illuminate the story. Learn more and register for this #BarnesClass today 🔗 https://bit.ly/3WBjnDG 📸 Albert C. Barnes in front of Matisse’s The Music Lesson, c. 1946. Photograph by Angelo Pinto, courtesy of the Pinto family. Photograph Collection, Barnes Foundation Archives, Philadelphia

After a period of isolationism, the ports of Japan reopened to Western ships in the 1850s. In the decades that followed, as trade with countries like the United States and France increased, Japanese art and culture began to influence Western painters, sculptors, and designers. Evidence of this influence can be seen in many of the key artworks of this period, particularly the paintings of the French and American impressionists. The French critic Philippe Burty, whose writings fueled the interest in all things Japanese in the 1870s, coined the term “Japonisme” to describe this sensation, which continued well into the 20th century. In a one-day *online* workshop, Impressionism and Japonisme: Cross-Cultural Exchange in the 19th Century, taking place Friday, July 19, from 10am – 4pm, we will explore the immense effect that Japanese art—including ukiyo-e prints, clothing, and fine objects such as fans, porcelain, pottery, and screens—had on Western artists in the late 19th century. We will look at the Japanese influence in works by artists including Edgar #Degas, Édouard #Manet, Claude #Monet, Berthe #Morisot, Pierre-Auguste #Renoir, and James #Tissot from France; Mary #Cassatt, #LouisComfortTiffany, and James McNeill #Whistler from the United States; #AlfredStevens from Belgium; and Vincent #VanGogh and George Hendrik #Breitner from the Netherlands. Check out our website for more information and to enroll 🔗 https://bit.ly/4ajeodH 🎨 Ando Hiroshige. Arai, Watashi no chakugan, Osekisho (detail), 1855. BF1127 🎨 Claude Monet. The Studio Boat (detail), 1876. BF730. Public Domain

Happy Juneteenth! We’re celebrating African American intellectual and cultural expression in the online one-day #BarnesClass Art and Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Black art and culture in exploded in New York City during the first decades of the 20th century, and Harlem—a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan in New York City—became an epicenter of music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship. Taking place online on Wednesday, July 24 from 10am – 4pm ET, this lively one-day workshop is a sampler of some of the great artists of the period—writers, poets, musicians, painters, and sculptors. We’ll read excerpts from Zora Neale Hurston’s short story “Spunk” and Nella Larsen’s novel Passing and delve into the poetry of Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen and the writings of Alain Locke. Through the artworks of Horace Pippin, Elijah Pierce, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, James Van Der Zee, and Romare Bearden, we will explore a range of African American expression. We will also discuss the sociocultural conditions that led to this flourishing and the important role played by Albert C. Barnes in championing what was then known as the “New Negro” movement. This class will be taught by Barnes faculty member Michael Williamson. Williamson studied at Yale University and the Milton Avery Graduate School of Bard College. He taught art history and studio art for nearly 30 years at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. Williamson has an active art practice and has shown his paintings locally. Go to our website to enroll 🔗 today https://bit.ly/4dzkl9f Scholarships are available 🎓 🎨 Horace Pippin. Giving Thanks (detail), 1942. The Barnes Foundation, BF990. Public Domain.

In this sunny tableau of summertime leisure on the shore of Bellport, Long Island, by American artist William Glackens, bands of young women and men swim, sail, and slide and dive from a floating raft. Glackens's lively strokes of high-keyed colors, especially in the iridescent seawater, offer an American variation on bathing scenes by French modernists such as Monet and Renoir. Albert Barnes applauded his friend Glackens's galvanization of American art and believed that the artist's brilliant use of color helped viewers to "see life with a reality that our unaided selves never would have experienced." In our July Close-Looking Immersion class, The Raft, taking place online on Wednesday, July 10, from 12 – 1:30pm ET, we’ll spend 90 minutes unpacking this masterful work. It is remarkable what things you start to notice—little details, individual brushstrokes, overall harmonies—when you give yourself the time and space to look carefully and #SeeArtDifferently. This class will be taught by William Perthes, the Bernard C. Watson Director of Adult Education at the Barnes. He has taught courses at the Barnes as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and West Chester and Villanova Universities. His scholarship focuses on American modernism and the abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell. Go to our website for more information and to enroll. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3ws4vN4 🎨 William James Glackens. The Raft (detail), 1915. The Barnes Foundation, BF701. Public Domain.

"Human nudity in art, particularly the male body, has engendered a complicated and often problematic discourse in recent centuries. While the classical Greco-Romans revered and idealized the male body, in the Christian era the Church usually strongly objected to any depictions that might provoke a sensualist response."—The Philadelphia Gay News In honor of Pride Month, the Barnes is offering an online-only, all-day workshop Thursday, June 20 on 'Sexuality and the Modern Male Body.' Read the full article 🔗📰 https://bit.ly/4c3zbUr This class is taught by Ty Vanover, a visiting professor at Dickinson College. Vanover specializes in 19th- and early 20th-century Central European art and visual culture. His research focuses on drawing and the graphic arts within the context of German sexual science between 1869 and 1933. His work has been supported by museums and universities across Germany, Austria, and the UK. Register for this #BarnesClass today 🔗 https://bit.ly/4eoGMOU Scholarships are available 🎓

Did you know that we are always trying to learn more about our art collection? 💡 The Barnes has a team of curators, scholars, conservators, and archivists who actively research the treasured works on view in our galleries. We work continually to link collection objects to their original histories, and almost every day we uncover something new—from small details like when a piece entered the collection, to larger discoveries like unknown sketches on the backs of two Cézannes! We also study our own history as an institution. The Barnes archives, with material dating back to 1902, is a wealth of information about works in the collection—and about the ideas and people that formed it. “Research Notes” presents some of our most recent discoveries and interpretations. Read the latest entry uncovering some intriguing history about the tapestry armchairs in our collection from graduate research intern, Elizabeth S. Humphrey, a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Delaware 🔎 https://bit.ly/4c6bIl1 📸: (cover) The Barnes Foundation, Second Floor Balcony South