Food for the Soul: Women in Art at the Barnes with Nina Heyn and Ulrike Granögger

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with Catherine Austin Fitts, Nina Heyn and Ulrike Granögger Interview

“Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety
and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.”
~ Albert C. Barnes

By Catherine Austin Fitts

As the Solari Report celebrates our forthcoming publication of Nina Heyn’s beautiful art book, Women in Art: Artists, Models and Those Who Made It Happen, nothing could be more delightful than to take part in an in-person museum outing with Nina. At the end of March, Future Science Series host Ulrike Granögger and I met up with Nina to visit Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation.

I grew up with dinner-table conversations about museum progenitor Albert C. Barnes and his art collection. Barnes studied medicine at the very same institution—the University of Pennsylvania—where my father later became chief of surgery and surgery department chair. After Barnes turned to pharmacology instead of medicine, he earned millions from the invention of an antiseptic silver compound called Argyrol, spinning “silver into gold.” With the fortuitous sale of his company a few months before the 1929 stock market crash, those millions helped finance the extensive and popular art collection now on view at the Barnes Foundation.

In this conversation, the three of us discuss the museum’s storied move from small-town Merion, PA to the heart of Philadelphia, its rich collection—including an astounding 181 works by Renoir as well as dozens of paintings by Impressionists such as Cézanne and Matisse—and some of our personal favorites. Our audio-only conversation is accompanied by images of most of the paintings we discuss (listed below). (Note: Copyright issues do not allow us to show Nina’s favorite Matisse painting.) You can read more about the visit to the Barnes at Food for the Soul.

List of Paintings Discussed:

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: The Artist’s Family (1896)
Édouard Manet: Laundry (1875)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Woman Crocheting (c. 1877)
Claude Monet: Madame Monet Embroidering (1875)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Girl Darning (c. 1909)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Young Mother (1881)
Amedeo Modigliani: Portrait of the Red-Headed Woman (1918)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Reading (c. 1891)
Henri Matisse: Three Sisters Triptych (1917)
Henri Matisse: The Music Lesson (1917)
Paul Cézanne: Still Life (1892–1894)

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