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Barnes, Albert Coombs
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Barnes, Albert Coombs (1872–1951)

US pharmacologist and art collector. Barnes development of the new antiseptic, Argyrol (1902), gave him the fortune that he needed to begin collecting late-19th- and early-20th-century French art. He wrote several books on art, and in 1922 established the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania.



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Inspired by events that took place at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, ``Collection'' opens during a changing of the guard.
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Allied Security provides contract security services for a number of other cultural attractions in the Philadelphia area, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Rodin Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Barnes Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Museum, the Franklin Institute, the Arthur Ross Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Art.
 
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