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Meyers, Mary Ann was born on September 30, 1937 in Sodus, New York, United States. Daughter of Harold Galpin and Clarice Mildred (Daniel) Dye.
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A physician who applied his knowledge of chemistry to the manufacture of a widely used antiseptic, Albert Barnes is best remembered as one of the great American art collectors. The Barnes Foundation, which houses his treasures, is a fabled repository of Impressionist, post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings. Less well known is the fact that Barnes attributed his passion for collecting art to his youthful experience of African-American culture, especially music. Art, Education, and African-American Culture is both a biography of an iconoclastic and innovative figure and a study of the often-conflicted efforts of an emergent liberalism to seek out and showcase African American contributions to the American aesthetic tradition. Mary Ann Meyers examines Barnes's background and career and the development and evolution of his enthusiasm for collecting pictures and sculpture. She shows how Barnes's commitment to breaking down invidious distinctions and his use of the uniquely arranged works in his collection as textbooks for his school, created a milieu where masterpieces of European and American late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century painting, along with rare and beautiful African art objects, became a backdrop for endless feuding. A gallery requiring renovation, a trust prohibiting the loan or sale of a single picture, and the efforts of Lincoln University, known as the "black Princeton," to balance conflicting needs and obligations all conspired to create a legacy of legal entanglement and disputes that remain in contention. This volume is neither an idealized account of a quixotic do-gooder nor is it a critique of a crank. While fully documenting Barnes's notorious eccentricities along with the clashing interests of the main personalities associated with his Foundation, Meyers eschews moral posturing in favor of a rich mosaic of peoples and institutions that illustrate many of the larger themes of American culture in general and African-American culture in particular.
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Meyers, Mary Ann was born on September 30, 1937 in Sodus, New York, United States. Daughter of Harold Galpin and Clarice Mildred (Daniel) Dye.
Bachelor magna cum laude, Syracuse University, 1959; Master of Arts, University of Pennsylvania, 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, 1976.
Editorial assistant, Ladies' Home Journal, Philadelphia, 1959-1962; editor, assistant director news bureau, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1962-1965; assistant to president, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1973-1975; university secretary, lecturer American civilization, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1980-1990; contributing writer, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Philadelphia, since 1965; director college relations, editor Haverford Horizons, lecturer in religion, Haverford (Pennsylvania) College, 1977-1980; president, The Annenberg Foundation, St. Davids, Pennsylvania, 1990-1992; vice president for external affairs, Moore College Art and Design, Philadelphia, 1995-1997; senior fellow, The John Templeton Foundation, Radnor, Pennsylvania, since 1997. Visiting committee Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, since 1996.
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Judge recognition program Council for Advancement and Support Education, Washington, 1977-1978, chair creative editing and writing workshop, 1978. Member Picker Foundation Program on Human Qualities in Medicine, New York City andPhila., 1980-1983. Delegate Philadelphia-Leningrad Sister Cities Project, 1986.
Trustee University of Pennsylvania Press, since 1985, vice chairman University of Pennsylvania, 250th Anniversary Commission, 1987-1990, member steering committee of board of trustees, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg School for Communication, 1990-1992, member of advisory board University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 1990-1998. Member board overseers, University of Pennsylvania, School Arts and Sciences, 1990-1997. Member steering committee of board of trustees Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1990-1992, The Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy Studies of Northwestern University, Washington, 1990-1992.
Director, treasurer American Academy Political and Social Science, since 1992, World Affairs Council Philadelphia, 1990-1995. Director Diagnostic and Rehabilitation Center, Philadelphia, since 1993. Director Partnership for Research on Religion and At-Risk Youth, Phila, since 1997.
Member Cosmopolitan Club, Sunday Breakfast Club, Phi Beta Kappa (member steering committee Delaware Valley chapter since 1995).
Married John Matthew Meyers D., August 22, 1959. Children: Andrew Christopher, Anne Kathryn.