Alfred Barr with his father in Greensboro, Vermont, early 1930s.
Alfred Barr at age sixteen.
The living room at 2 Beekman Place, circa 1932.
Margaret Scolari Barr in the Thirties.
On the Orient Express in 1932. Photograph by Alfred Barr.
Alfred Barr, Philip Johnson, and Margaret Scolari Barr in Cortona in 1932.
Portrait of Margaret Scolari Barr by Maurice Grosser (1932).
The announcement for Alfred Barr’s Wellesley lectures just prior to the opening of the Museum of Modern Art.
Varian Fry (lower right) with André Breton behind, Jacqueline Breton, Max Ernst (upper left), and André Masson.
Bauhaus Stairway, by Oskar Schlemmer. (Collection Museum of Modern Art.) Gift of Philip Johnson (see “Our Campaigns.”)
Detail, depicting Alfred Barr at MOMA, from Florine Stettheimer’s The Cathedrals of Art (1942). (Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
The “double image” painting, school of Arcimboldo, acquired by Alfred Barr in 1931. (See “Our Campaigns.”)
Saul Steinberg’s “diploma” for Alfred Barr upon his “graduation” from the Museum of Modern Art (1967).
The B Tree, Claes Oldenburg’s tribute to Alfred Barr upon his retirement from MOMA in 1967.
Margaret and Alfred Barr at the Venice Biennale in 1948.
