African Art in the Barnes Foundation

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African Art in the Barnes Foundation: The Triumph of L’Art nègre and the Harlem RenaissanceBy Christa Clarke, with contributions by 15 other distinguished scholars African Art in the Barnes Foundation is the first catalogue of the approximately 125 African objects—including figural sculpture and masks, as well as utilitarian objects—that Albert C. Barnes acquired between 1921 and 1924. Barnes was one of the first people in the United States to display African objects as art, at a time when they were…