by Jon Lackman | 24 April 2007 | Modern
From the Barnes Foundation website: “The Board of Trustees of the Barnes Foundation has announced the award of a $5 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation … [to] establish a permanent endowment to support scholarly activities … Among the initiatives that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has funded at the Barnes Foundation are two major research projects on the Foundation’s collections of over 180 works by Renoir, and 59 by Matisse. In studying these highly significant, but hitherto uncatalogued works, art historians Martha Lucy, Kate Butler, and Claudine Grammont have mined the rich Barnes archives, as well as archives and other resources in New York, Paris, London and elsewhere. The three scholars are working under the guidance of Professor Yve-Alain Bois of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study and Professor John House of the Courtauld Institute in London.”
