Word: argyrol
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...love is lost between other Philadelphia art authorities and Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, inventor of Argyrol, collector and self-appointed gadfly to museums. Last November Dr. Barnes broke a short truce with a bitter horselaugh at Millionaire Joseph Widener for buying, and at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art for accepting, a large, sparse Cézanne which he called inferior (TIME, Nov. 29). Lately the wealthy doctor has formed a queer alliance with the Philadelphia Artists' Union to discomfit attractive Mary Curran, State director of the Federal Art Project...
...That evening the dynamic doctor got the jump on reporters by suggesting that they, too, picket the museum and the Art Project "in protest against the Fascistic way it is being operated." When he heard this, Director Kimball relaxed his dignified silence for the first time to say that "Argyrol" Barnes's complaints were a lot of rubbish...
...Upon these scenes of public congratulation and goodwill there dropped last week a large and sputtering bomb. It was tossed from nearby Merion, Pa., by one of the master bomb-throwers of the art world, none other than the terrible-tem-pered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, millionaire inventor of Argyrol and owner of the finest private collection of modern French paintings in the U. S. Dr. Barnes was incensed by the Museum's statement that "a second version, and a slightly smaller picture" of Les Grandes Baigneuses was in the Barnes Foundation collection. In response he roared that...
Glad to escape from the "congealed" atmosphere of Merion, Pa., cantankerous Albert C, Barnes, inventor of Argyrol and No. 1 U. S. modern art collector, dined with the neighboring Narberth Fire Company, compared museum directors to "cheap politicians like the Mayor of Philadelphia," firemen to true artists who "translate ideas into action and emotion into practical experience...
...most distinguished collector of modern paintings, Dr. Albert Coombes Barnes, arrived from Paris on the Normandie last week accompanied by his friend and collaborator, Miss Violette de Mazia, the manuscript of a new book and half a million dollars worth of pictures. Talking easily, the inventor of Argyrol announced...