Richard H. Glanton, Ex-Barnes Foundation Head, Dies at 79 After Heart Attack
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 6
Richard H. Glanton, Ex-Barnes Foundation Head, Dies at 79 After Heart Attack
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 6
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June 21 marked the death of Richard H. Glanton at his Princeton, New Jersey, home; his wife said the former Barnes Foundation president died of a heart attack.
In the 1990s, Glanton became a polarizing figure by sending 80 French artworks on the Barnes Foundation’s first-ever tour, defying founder Albert C. Barnes’s directive that nothing be moved.
Glanton, a lawyer, pushed to make the once-insular Merion institution more visible while trying to raise about $15 million for renovations as its endowment shrank and its building deteriorated.
The clash centered on one of the world’s premier private collections—works by Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Picasso, Manet, Gauguin and Matisse—whose founder had intended the display to remain fixed after his 1951 death.