Interior: Jim

Discussion

FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

Harry Sefarbi was a student at the Barnes in the late 1940s, and in 1953 he joined the permanent faculty, going on to teach the traditions of painting for the next 50 years. In a 1950 letter, Albert Barnes told Sefarbi that while he liked this painting of a man in a striped shirt sitting in a kitchen, he thought the colors were best viewed from afar. Perhaps this is why Barnes chose to hang it above the doorway.

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