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2015 Annual Report 2015 Annual Report II CONTENTS 2 LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT 4 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 5 OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES OF THE BARNES FOUNDATION 5 APPOINTMENTS 6 ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 10 CONSERVATION 14 EDUCATION 20 EXHIBITIONS 28 PROGRAMS 34 PUBLICATIONS 40 STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS 48 DONORS PREVIOUS: Paul Cézanne. Trees (Arbres) (detail), c. 1900. Watercolor and graphite on laid paper. BF655. Photo © 2016 The Barnes Foundation OPPOSITE: William Glackens. Armenian Girl (detail), 1916. Oil on canvas. BF176. Photo © 2016 The Barnes Foundation IV LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT Dear friends, In the three years since opening our to engage with the works in ways Providing expanded access and critical acclaim: African Art in the Barnes beautiful building on the Benjamin that resonate with them. As we look educational opportunities for all Foundation: The Triumph of l’Art nègre Franklin Parkway, the Barnes towards connecting with the next visitors—especially students—is one of and the Harlem Renaissance, by Christa Foundation has accomplished so million visitors and beyond, we plan our top priorities. We have joined forces Clarke, PhD, and Matisse in the Barnes much together with our community to delve deeper to reveal—through with the Violette de Mazia Foundation Foundation, by Yve Alain-Bois. and stakeholders. As my first year as our education courses, exhibitions, to unify and expand our education executive director and president, 2015 public programs, tours, and online programs, and we announced free I want to thank our Board of Trustees, will always be special to me. Not only resources—the social, historical, and weekday collection admission for whose guidance and counsel has did we embark upon the development ideological context of the collection. college and graduate students. been invaluable; our docents and of a new strategic plan—designed to volunteers; and my colleagues on the serve as a roadmap for our work as Our visitors come from around the Our 2015 exhibition program both staff of the Foundation for all that they we look towards the Barnes’s second world to explore the art, ideas, and highlighted and responded to elements do to ensure that we are responsible century—but we also welcomed Dr. histories represented in the collection. of the collection. In addition to the stewards of the collection and Martha Lucy as our deputy director They have joined us for public major exhibition Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff, advocates of our mission. for education & public programs and programs; performing arts events; film Fred Wilson: The Order of Things, we curator, and we celebrated an exciting and video presentations; symposia; and presented Cézanne Uncovered: Two In closing, I want to express my milestone: welcoming our one millionth community forums. They have dined in Sketches Revealed through Conservation, sincere gratitude to our donors and visitor to the Parkway building. our restaurant and café, and shopped a display of two sketches discovered members for their most generous in our fantastic museum shop. Many during a paper conservation treatment. and enthusiastic support. Your Dr. Albert C. Barnes’s extraordinary have deepened their engagement with This discovery represents a remarkable commitments make our work possible. collection continues to impart fresh the Barnes by becoming individual contribution to Cézanne scholarship, knowledge and inspire new modes and corporate members—more than and we know there are many more Thom Collins of expression. We aim to welcome 18,000 since 2012. discoveries within the collection Executive Director and President the widest possible public to the waiting to be unearthed. We also Barnes and to enable these visitors published two major catalogues to 2 THE BARNES FOUNDATION 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 3 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OFFICERS AND TRUSTEES APPOINTMENTS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE BARNES FOUNDATION Dear friends, As we reflect on 2015, we celebrate our Expanding access to the Barnes Mr. Joseph Neubauer, The Board of Trustees elected three accomplishments and look ahead to remains one of our top priorities. This Chair new Trustees in 2015: Philadelphia another year of growth and innovation. year we introduced the College Access Ms. Aileen Kennedy Roberts, native John J. Aglialoro, chairman This year was a landmark one in the program, providing free admission on Vice Chair and co-founder of UM Holdings Ltd; history of the Barnes Foundation. weekdays to all undergraduate and The Honorable Jacqueline F. Allen, Catherine (Cathy) Hughes, chairperson We welcomed Thom Collins as our graduate students. Our pre-K–high Secretary and founder of Radio One, Inc.; new executive director and president school outreach programs continue Stephen J. Harmelin, Esq., and Gregory Charles Miller Sr., a and, under his leadership, began the to grow each year; since opening in Treasurer pharmaceutical industry executive and development of a new strategic plan. 2012, we have welcomed over 30,000 longtime education philanthropist. children from the School District of Mr. John J. Aglialoro We are proud to have welcomed Philadelphia. Sheldon M. Bonovitz, Esq. Thomas (Thom) Collins was named 240,000 visitors in 2015. Our visitors Ms. Tory Burch the new executive director and came to the Barnes from the greater Advancing our artistic and educational Mr. Daniel M. DiLella president of the Barnes Foundation. Philadelphia area, across the nation, mission would not be possible without Ms. Catherine Hughes Dr. Martha Lucy was named deputy and around the world. They visited to the generous support of many Dr. Ernest C. Levister Jr. director for education & public experience the renowned collection individual, foundation, and corporate Mr. Gregory C. Miller Sr. programs and curator. of impressionist, post-impressionist, donors and members. We are grateful Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad and early modern paintings; to view for your belief in the work of the Dr. Neil L. Rudenstine our special exhibitions, which highlight institution, and, on behalf of my fellow Dr. Brenda T. Thompson the many dimensions of the Barnes Trustees, the people of Philadelphia, Mr. Thomas K. Whitford collection; and to participate in our and our many visitors, I thank you for award-winning educational programs. your interest in all that we do. We look forward to building on these wonderful achievements. Joseph Neubauer Chair 4 THE BARNES FOUNDATION 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 5 Photography prints in MoMA’s Archives Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs The Barnes Foundation Archives loaned photographic prints to the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition and Special Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs. Collections William J. Glackens: Artist and Friend In conjunction with the William Glackens exhibition, the Barnes mounted an archival exhibit of documents and photographs showing the close friendship between Dr. Albert C. Jubilee! A Celebration of the Barnes and artist William J. Glackens. Arboretum School’s 75th Anniversary The exhibition included eight letters between Barnes, Glackens, and the 2015 marked the 75th anniversary of artist’s wife, Edith Dimock Glackens, the horticulture education program, pulled from the Albert C. Barnes founded by Laura Barnes in 1940 as the Correspondence. Barnes Arboretum School. We honored this anniversary with an exhibition of historical materials from the Barnes Foundation Archives and Special Collec- tions, showcasing the Albert C. Barnes Correspondence, John Milton Fogg Papers, and Laura Leggett Barnes Papers. ABOVE: Rauwolfia schueli. Herbarium, Barnes Foundation Arboretum. Photo © 2016 The Barnes Foundation 6 THE BARNES FOUNDATION 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 7 8 A digital X-ray radiography system— an Eresco MF4 Portable X-Ray Tube and Conservation GE Rhythm Digital Detector Array and Software—arrived at the Foundation in spring 2014, enabling X-ray images to be acquired on a direct capture plate and transmitted to the Rhythm system computer for immediate viewing. In 2015, the X-ray room in the Barnes Founda- tion’s conservation studio was outfitted with additional safety features, and final installation and training took place in May 2015. The X-ray radiography unit has been actively used since installation, with radiography of collection paintings and objects completed by conservation staff. The Conservation Department also acquired a Bruker hand-held X-ray fluo- rescence (XRF) Tracer III-SD unit in the late fall of 2014. The handheld XRF allows In 2015, the Foundation began a multi- for non-destructive elemental analysis of year project to recoat the metal objects paintings and objects in the collection. displayed on the walls of the Collec- The new equipment facilitated the tech- tion Gallery. The treatment consists of nical analysis, by conservation staff, of removing old coatings, cleaning the ten paintings and ten objects in 2015. PREVIOUS: Ensemble surface of the metal, and applying a view, Room 6, west wall, protective wax coating to the object. Philadelphia. Photo © 2016 The Barnes Foundation The purchase of X-ray technology was made possible with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Henry OPPOSITE: Hinge, late 18th– K. Justi, the Richard C. Von Hess Foundation, and early 19th century. United other individual donors. Generous support for States, Pennsylvania. Iron. painting conservation was provided by Joan and 01.14.60. Photo © 2016 John M. Thalheimer. The Barnes Foundation 10 THE BARNES FOUNDATION 2015 ANNUAL REPORT 11 12 Education 75th Anniversary of the advertised the school in local newspapers Barnes Arboretum School and to members of the American Philosophical Society’s Committee on Laura Barnes established the Barnes Education and Participation in Science. Arboretum School in 1940, enlisting Approximately 15 students registered the help of University of Pennsylvania for the inaugural session of classes. botany professor John Milton Fogg. They initially met twice a week and the PREVIOUS: A Look! Reflect! In the school’s first year, Mrs. Barnes program took three years to complete. Connect! lesson in the taught courses on plant materials, Fogg The arboretum has always been intended Collection Gallery, 2015.
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