The Barnes Foundation is an Americaneducational art and horticultural institution withlocations in Lower Merion,Pennsylvania,a suburbof Philadelphia;and Logan Square,Philadelphia.Itwas founded in 1922 by Albert C.Barnes,achemist who collected art after making a fortuneby co-developing an early anti-gonorrhea drugmarketed as Argyrol and selling his company atthe right time,before antibiotics came into use.