Stewart Culin, Brooklyn Museum
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Abstract: Report on a Collecting Trip in Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Czechoslovakia & Belgium, 7-8/1922, pp. 115-118. Culin recounts meeting Mr. A.C. Barnes at Paul Guillaume's place. Barnes mentions having bought a large collection of Negro art from Guillaume and is very enthusiastic about the possibility of lending pieces for the Brooklyn Museum's exhibition of primitive Negro art. Culin purchases a grotesque figure of an antelope, a highly ornamented iron axe and a small wooden seat with ornamented figures, a very fine Bushongo box, a "gorilla" mask, a disk-shaped mask and a carved message stick. On the following day Culin meets again with Barnes at Guillaume's. Barnes reveals that he had spent $76,000 on works of art during his visit in Paris. Barnes reiterates his enthusiasm for Culin's Negro art project. While at lunch with Mr. Guillaume and his "young, rather pretty" wife, Guillaume says that he had been collecting African objects for twelve years and believes he was perhaps the first dealer to do so. Culin surmises that he was selling his collection at great profit, considering the car Guillaume drove. | |
Source: Archives: Culin Archival Collection Location: S01_02_01_031 | |
