Word: argyrol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argyrol made Dr. Barnes his millions and Art his fame. His museum in Philadelphia is surrounded by a 10ft. spite fence, is opened only to close friends or students with top-notch credentials. The late Paul Guillaume, French art dealer, picked out and bought most of the Barnes Impressionist and Surrealist pictures. Today if Dr. Barnes singles out for his collection one unknown painter, that artist's reputation is supposed to be made. Dealers, therefore, treat him with kid gloves. Less scared of him is able, black-haired Belle da Costa Greene, who once closed the doors...
...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 brusque but no booby...
...were holding their first joint art exhibition at Philadelphia's swank Mellon Galleries. The exhibition opened with an announcement for which most modern artists would give four sound teeth: four of the Pinto Brothers' paintings have been sold to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Argyrol tycoon with the big modern art museum in Merion. Pa. Even better, the almost legendary Dr. Barnes has written the foreword to the Pintos' catalog, an honor he has conferred only once before and then upon Giorgio de Chirico. His Pinto purchases were Salvatore's "Beach Group" and "Beach Scene"; Angelo...
...saved enough money to go to Heidelberg where he helped pay his tuition as a singing waiter in a Braukeller. He was always more interested in chemistry than medicine. Back in the U. S. he stewed up something on the future Mrs. Barnes's kitchen range. It was Argyrol, the silver compound that serves many purposes of silver nitrate without its burn...
...laws of most States, silver nitrate, Argyrol, or some other silver salt must be put in the eyes of newborn babes to disinfect the mucous membrane, prevent blindness. Its manufacture is very simple. For years Dr. Barnes turned out the world's supply of genuine Argyrol in a little ramshackle factory which had just eight employes: five white women, three colored men. He never employed more than 20 people. Argyrol leaves the factory in the form of minute crystals. Little drops of water, little grains of Argyrol, made the mighty Dr. Barnes (six ft. high, 200 Ib.) a multimillionaire...