Billionaire art lover Albert Barnes was brilliant in business. He was also ‘emotionally, socially incredibly stupid.’
“I think one of the most important things to understanding him is his rise from less than nothing.”
The presence of Albert C. Barnes hovers at the Barnes Foundation on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, both in the way the art is presented as well as in this 1926 portrait of him by Giorgio de Chirico shown in a photo from May 2013.Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer
