In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
A yellow-hatted figure with a blue face and swirling eyes juggles several multicolored balls. The effect is both comical and unnerving. When Dr. Barnes bought Juggler in 1950, he wrote to a friend: "I strongly urge you to arrange to come to Philadelphia... to look at a large number of paintings done by Hankins... He is the most exciting painter I have seen anywhere in the past several years—exciting because he is not only a real painter but as individual an artist as Matisse, Klee or Miró. He is also as definitely modern as any of these contemporaries, and I believe he is destined to go places."
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Paul Klee — Asiatic God
Liz Clarke — The Balloon Man
Paul Klee — Schoolhouse
Chaïm Soutine — Garçon d'honneur
Kristján DavíÐsson — Still Life
Alexej von Jawlensky — Abstract Head
Amedeo Modigliani — Portrait of Paul Guillaume
Chaïm Soutine — Le groom
Chaïm Soutine — The floor waiter
Amedeo Modigliani — Portrait of Diego Rivera
Kazimir Malevich — Sensation of danger
Afro — The Novice (Il novizio)