Museum · Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Barnes Foundation

The pale stone Barnes Foundation building beside a long reflecting pool on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Albert Barnes's extraordinary collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Matisse and more, hung as he arranged it.

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