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Working on-site over a multi-year period at The Barnes Foundation, Tim Nighswander photographed over 800 works in one of the finest collections of post-impressionist and early modern paintings. The Barnes has since published five books utilizing Tim Nighswander's images: Matisse in the Barnes Foundation, Renoir in The Barnes, The Barnes Foundation and American Works on Paper, Master Works of The Barnes, and William Glackens Catalogue. Additionally, Tim photographed and documented the unconventional and distinctively symmetrical wall compositions referred to as 'ensembles' first at their original location in Merion, PA, and then again when The Barnes moved to Philadelphia, PA. During the relocation from Merion to Philadelphia, Tim Nighswander photographed, and created a time-lapse video of, the de-installation and re-installation of the famous Matisse Dance Mural, commissioned by Dr. Barnes to be hung on three lunettes in the foundation building's main gallery.
Barnes invited Matisse to paint a canvas triptych mural for three arches at the foundation’s home outside Philadelphia in Lower Merion, Pennsylvania. Photo: Tim Nighswander
The Barnes Foundation, main gallery, north wall, Philadelphia, PA. Photograph © The Barnes Foundation 2012. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch, 1853–1890 The Postman, 1889, Oil on canvas,
25 7/8 x 21 3/4 in. (65.7 x 55.2 cm) © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Frans Hals, Dutch, c. 1581 - 1866 Dutch Burgher, 1643, Oil on canvas,
32 1/2 x 26 1/4 in. (82.6 x 66.7 cm) © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Paul Cézanne, Boy in a Red Vest (Le Garçon au gilet rouge) 1888–1890, Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. (65.4 x 54.6 cm) © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Henri Matisse, Red Madras Headdress (Le Madras rouge),1907, Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in. (100 x 81 cm). © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Amedeo Modigliani, Italian, 1884–1920 Redheaded Girl in Evening Dress, 1918,
Oil on canvas, 45 3/4 x 28 3/4 in. (116.2 x 73 cm). © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman (Tête de femme), 1907, Oil on canvas, 18 1/8 x 13 inches (46 x 33 cm) © The Barnes Foundation 2012. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Paul Gauguin, Mr. Loulou Louis Le Ray), 1890, Oil on canvas, 21 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches (55.2 x 46.4 cm), © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Henri Rousseau, Woman Walking In An Exotic Forest, 1905, Oil on canvas, 39 3/8 x 31 3/4 inches, © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Paul Cézanne, French, 1839–1906 Still Life, 1892–1894, Oil on canvas,
25 3/4 x 32 1/8 in. (65.4 x 81.6 cm) © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Charles Prendergast, Two Figures On a Mule, 1917-1920, Tempera, graphite, gold and silver leaf on incised gessoed panel, 23 x 31 1.2 inches (58.4 x 78.9 cm) © The Barnes Foundation. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Henri Matisse, Studio with Goldfish, 1912,
Henri Matisse, Studio with Goldfish (L'Atelier aux poissons rouges), 1912. Oil on canvas, 46 7/16 x 39 15/16 in. (118 x 101.5 cm), ©2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Henri Matisse, Le Bonheur de vivre, also called The Joy of Life, 1905-1906, Oil on canvas, 69 1/2 x 94 3/4 in. (176.5 x 240.7 cm). ©2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
Henri Matisse, Seated Riffian (Le Rifain assis), 1912, Oil on canvas, 78 7/8 x 63 1/4 in. (200.3 x 160.7 cm), ©2018 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Tim Nighswander/IMAGING4ART
William Glackens
by Avis Berman
Contributions by Avis Berman, Elizabeth Thompson Colleary, Heather Campbell Coyle, Judith F. Dolkart, Alicia G. Longwell, Martha Lucy, Patricia Mears, Carol Troyen, and Emily C. Wood
This revelatory new monograph provides a richly illustrated and comprehensive introduction to William Glackens (1870-1938), an early champion of modernist painting in America and one of its most talented exponents. Photographs by Tim NIghswander/IMAGING4ART