In the ’80s, Albert Coombs Barnes came out of his South Philadelphia corner fighting.* A poor boy, he worked his way through high school, paid his way through the University of Pennsylvania medical ...

We take access to art for granted, whether it’s hanging on the walls of a museum, highlighted in the windows of galleries or — in the case of sculpture — standing in roundabouts or on the streets.

Purchased from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. Prologue -- Civil War, Childhood, Methodism -- The neck, Central High -- Medical School, Germany, Mulford -- Wedding, ...

The early years -- Experiments in education and living -- The collector and his tutors -- Mr. Dewey -- "The temple" in Merion -- The art in painting -- The art of polemics -- A new valuation of black ...

ART AND ARGYROL (412 pp.)—William Schack—Thomas Yoseloff ($4.95). On a summer’s afternoon nine years ago, a Cadillac careened at high speed past a stop sign onto a highway in suburban Philadelphia, ...