July 29 am

We took the #17 bus to town. It came only two blocks from the hotel. After the bus dropped us off we had about a 7 block walk to the Barnes foundation building.

We had purchased tickets on line for the Barnes Foundation art collection. The first image is Ann and me outside the relatively new (opened about a year before we came) building. The grounds of the new building are far more spacious than at the old site and there is more space in the building to circulate (although the display rooms are about the same size).

The second image gives a view of the general layout of the building that houses the art collection.

The third image, which of the north and west walls of room 18, give an idea of the way the art collection is displayed.

Dr. Barnes called his walls 'ensembles'. He had various organizing ideas that he used to decide which picture goes where and what other items should go on the wall. He is not constrained by the usual conventions and portraits and still life go next to each other as to impressionist, post impressionist and other art. The foundation holds 180 Renoir paintings (the largest such collection in the world) as well as dozens of Cezanne, Matisse and other impressionists.