In the collection of Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia — check current display status with the museum.
FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG
Barton Church gave Girl in a Chair as a gift to Dr. Barnes in June 1951, when he had completed his studies at the Barnes Foundation; it is the last painting that Dr. Barnes acquired. Meanwhile Church went on to become a beloved instructor at the Barnes Foundation for over 60 years. Here a stylized figure in a lime-green outfit perches in a lavender chair against an immersive tangerine background. It is an appropriate celebration of the collection, bringing together elements from Dogon sculpture, the paintings of de Chirico and Afro, and functional objects—note the resemblance of the chair in the painting to the Windsor armchair below.
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Wols — Bird's-Eye View
Arthur Dove — Silver Tanks
Kristján DavíÐsson — Still Life
Geer van Velde — Seated Figure at Table
John Macallan Swan — Polar Bears
Charles Demuth — Bermuda: Rooftops through Trees
Gustav Klimt — Friends I
Georges Rouault — Clown in Top Hat
Walter Ruttmann (German, 1887–1941) — The Promenade
Gustav Klimt — Portrait of Ria Munch III
Henri Matisse — Standing Figure
Charles Demuth — Bermuda Landscape No. 2