Gallery and Arboretum
In 1922, the architect Paul Cret designed a complex of buildings for the original facility, on the land purchased by Barnes from American Civil War veteran and horticulturist Captain Joseph Lapsley Wilson. The building features several unusual cubist bas-reliefs, commissioned by Barnes from the sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. The grounds, which were developed by his wife, Laura Barnes, with some of Wilson's plantings, comprise the Arboretum of the Barnes Foundation.
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