The Barnes Foundation
The Honickman Charitable Trust is committed and proud to support The Barnes Foundation in its move to center city Philadelphia where its citizens and visitors alike will have easy access to this world-renowned collection. View an early rendering of the new building at the Arts Beat blog.
The Barnes Foundation was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to "promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture.
Currently located on a 12-acre arboretum, the Paul Cret-designed Gallery houses one of the world's largest collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive holdings by Renoir, Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, Rousseau, Modigliani, Soutine and de Chirico, as well as Old Master paintings, important examples of African sculpture and Native American ceramics, American paintings and decorative arts, and antiquities from the Mediterranean region and Asia.
The gallery will relocate to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Center City, Philadelphia in 2012. The new facility, designed by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects will maintain the intimate character of the original, distinctive layout and display the artwork in exhibition space that replicates the original galleries in Merion.