ABSTRACT
Albert Barnes’s lawyer, John G. Johnson, was one of the most discriminating collectors in America. His legal acumen had made him rich, but just as he always refused to accept an exaggerated fee for his services as an attorney, he declined to pay inflated prices for art. Barnes wrote to “Butts,” as he always called Glackens, seeking to renew their friendship in 1910 or 1911. While Barnes had studied medicine, Glackens had attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts intermittently and worked as an artist-journalist for several Philadelphia newspapers. The summer of 1911 found them both on the south shore of Long Island, where the Glackenses had rented a cottage in the artists’ colony of Bellport and the Barneses visited Laura Barnes’s mother at her summer place in nearby Blue Point. Barnes returned to Europe again in April of 1914 on an extended trip that took him to galleries and museums from Paris to Madrid to Florence.
