In 1929 hard-boiled Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. sold his Argyrol rights to Zonite Products Corp., pocketed his millions and concentrated, in his French Renaissance chateau behind a loft. fence, upon the finest collection of modern art in the U. S. He never lends pictures for outside exhibition, sometimes handpicks a few visitors to look at them. His guards manhandle enterprising reporters. Occasionally he buys a painting by an unknown painter. The canvas disappears behind Dr. Barnes's fence, but the painter is made. As a judge of art, Dr. Barnes is...
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