Art Lovers Book Club ~ The Devil and Dr. Barnes
Event Details
October 15, 2015 4:00 PM
Location: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
410 Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Email: cmotsinger@crma.org
Phone: 3193667503
Website: http://www.crma.org
410 Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Email: cmotsinger@crma.org
Phone: 3193667503
Website: http://www.crma.org
Event Description
This month’s discussion is of The Devil and Dr. Barnes: Portrait of an American Art Collector by Howard Greenfeld. Albert Coombs Barnes, one of the most eccentric, controversial figures of the early twentieth-century art world, springs vividly from the pages of Howard Greenfeld’s superb biography. The Devil and Dr. Barnes traces the near-mythical journey of a man who was born into poverty, amassed a fortune through the promotion of a popular medicine, and acquired the premier private collection of works by such masters as Renoir, Matisse, Cezanne, and Picasso.
