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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Liz Clarke — The Balloon Man
Kristján DavíÐsson — Still Life
Afro — The Novice (Il novizio)
Charles Demuth — The Ladies Will Pardon My Mouth's Being Ful
Georges Rouault — Acrobat with Two Dogs (Clown)
Aristodimos Kaldis — Absorbing Art
Marsden Hartley — Movement, Bermuda
Chaim Soutine — The Pastry Chef (Baker Boy) (Le Pâtissier)
Joan Miró — Two Women Surrounded by Birds![Dancing Couple in the Snow [reverse]](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/02d6ebca-0992-4be5-9e1e-06749ec65449/full/!500,500/0/default.jpg)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner — Dancing Couple in the Snow [reverse]
Paul Cezanne — The Artist's Son, Paul
Henri Matisse — Seated Riffian (Le Rifain assis)