Dr. Albert Barnes acquired seventeen Gritchenko's paintings for his collection, now The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia.
With the enormous profits from the sale of the drug for a wide range of indications in human and veterinary medicine, Barnes accumulated a large collection of art, mainly French Impressionist works, which today form the holdings of the Barnes Foundation, an educational art institution established by his will.
He is currently on the Board of the New York Public Library, the Goldman Sachs Foundation, the Barnes Foundation, as well as many others both in the United States and in Europe.
National Science Foundation | Ford Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation | Barnes & Noble | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | Electronic Frontier Foundation | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | New York Foundation for the Arts | Jimmy Barnes | Mozilla Foundation | Guggenheim Foundation | Alexander von Humboldt Foundation | John Barnes | Andrew W. Mellon Foundation | Wikimedia Foundation | Barnes Wallis | Barnes | Apache Software Foundation | foundation | Roy Barnes | Make-A-Wish Foundation | Julian Barnes | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation | Clinton Foundation | Open Software Foundation | Konex Foundation | John Barnes (footballer) | Foundation series | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Carnegie Foundation |
In a 2009 documentary film about the politics behind attempts to move the Barnes Foundation art collection to the Philadelphia Museum of Art called “The Art of the Steal,” Fisher admitted using pressure on Lincoln University officials to get them to approve the move.
Visiting the United States in 1953 de Staël and Francoise visited MoMA, the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania and various other important institutions.
In a series of essays and reviews, he touches on numerous subjects including minimalism, the Barnes Foundation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art and examines artists including Vincent van Gogh, Edward Burne-Jones, Gustave Moreau, Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, Paul Klee.