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The Barnes Foundation
Completes Grant Project
Funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities
The Barnes Foundation’s Archives and Library Department
has recently completed a major processing project funded by the National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The 2004 grant of $95,397 provided funding
for a full-time processing archivist and for supplies and technical assistance
to re-house, arrange, and create finding aids and catalogue records for early
records of the Barnes Foundation and its founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes.
Records processed as part of this project included
Barnes Foundation administrative correspondence from 1952 to 1960, and draft manuscripts and related materials for
the six books on art theory and pedagogy written by Dr. Barnes: The Art in Painting, Art and Education, The
French Primitives and Their Forms,
The Art of Renoir, The Art of
Cézanne, and The Art of Henri-Matisse. Financial
records, including account books, checks and check stubs, tax records, and
receipts and invoices, are currently being processed by Project Archivist
Adrienne Pruitt, whose position has been made permanent through funding by the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
A major goal of the project was to create, and make
available to the public, MARC records and EAD finding aids for each collection.
As processing for each group of records was completed, Ms. Pruitt produced MARC
records, which have been submitted to the National Union Catalog of Manuscript
Collections. She also created EAD finding aids for the collections, which are
described and linked (http://www.barnesfoundation.org/des_collections.html)
as well as indexed (http://www.barnesfoundation.org/finding_aids_index.html)
on the Barnes’s archives Web pages.
Dr. Albert C. Barnes established the Barnes Foundation
in 1922 to promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the
fine arts. The Barnes continues to fulfill its mission through educational
classes and programs. The art and aesthetics program uses the Barnes’s
world-renowned art collection to encourage discussion and critical
problem-solving skills. The Foundation’s Arboretum School, established by
Laura Leggett Barnes in 1940, continues to offer courses and workshops in the botanical sciences, horticultural practices, and garden
aesthetics and design. Students learn in the twelve-acre arboretum,
which features world-class collections of ferns, stewartia, magnolias, and
lilacs.
The Archives and Library Department preserves,
catalogues, and provides reference services for approximately 2,500 linear feet
of archival records; more than 5,000 volumes in the Foundation’s
circulating library of art and horticulture books; and a collection of more
than 1,000 rare books, periodicals, and exhibition and auction catalogues. The
archival collection documents the activities of the Barnes Foundation and its
community, and provides information about the personal and professional lives
of Dr. Albert C. Barnes and Laura Leggett Barnes. The archives also contain
acquisition information related to the art collection and documentation for the
history of the living collections in the arboretum. For more information
on the Barnes Foundation’s Archives and Library, please visit: http://www.barnesfoundation.org/archivesandlibrary.html.
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Katy Rawdon-Faucett
Archivist and Librarian
The Barnes Foundation
300 North Latch's Lane
Ph: (610) 667-0290 ext. 1048
Fax: (610) 664-4026
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