Barney ebsworth biography

          Barney A. Ebsworth ( ) was a travel business executive and art collector in Hunts Point, Washington.

        1. Barney was born in St. Louis, Missouri on July 14, alongside his twin sister, the late Muriel Louise Mueller, to Alec and Bernice Ebsworth.
        2. Ebsworth (July 14, – April 9, ) was an.
        3. Barney A. Ebsworth was an American corporate executive and art collector.
        4. Ebsworth, born in , is an art lover who made his millions in the travel industry.

          5. Ebsworth (July 14, – April 9, ) was an..

          Barney A. Ebsworth

          American corporate executive and art collector (–)

          Barney A. Ebsworth (July 14, – April 9, )[1] was an American corporate executive and art collector.

          He was one of the initial investors in the Build-A-Bear Workshop and was a pioneer in the travel industry.[1] Ebsworth died on April 9, [2]

          Art collection

          Ebsworth was a trustee of the St.

          Louis Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum, a commissioner of the American Art Museum and Smithsonian Institution and a member of the Trustees Council and Co-Chairman of Collectors Committee of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.[3]

          At a Christie's auction in , Ebsworth purchased Wayne Thiebaud's Bakery Counter (), one of the artist's largest early still lifes, for $ million; at the time, this was a record for the artist.[4] In , he sold Andy Warhol's Big Campbell's Soup Can With Can Opener (Vegetable), a painting with a can opener cutting into the signat