Will Barnet
American, 1911-2012
At the beginning of his career, Will Barnet was known for his figural depictions of domestic scenes. But, as he continued to stylistically develop, Barnet arrived at abstract geometric paintings far removed from his original career. A part of the Indian Space Painters group, Barnet was inspired by Native American art in creating these divergent images. Throughout his career, Barnet oscillated between representational and abstract paintings, never fully settling on one. He has received the National Medal of Arts in 2011, and his work has been displayed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.(Biography provided by Rafael Gallery)
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Reflection - 1971 Serigraph - HAND-SIGNED, Limited edition
By Will Barnet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: XX1320-B
Artist: Will Barnet
Title: Reflection
Year: 1971
Signed: Yes
Medium: Serigraph
Paper Size: 30 x 23.25 inches ( 76.2 x 59.055 cm )
Image Size: 22 x 14.25 inches ( 55.88 ...
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1970s Realist Will Barnet
Materials
Screen
No Reserve
H 30 in W 23.25 in
“The White Stairway”
By Will Barnet
Located in Warren, NJ
This is an Will Barnet lithograph signed and numbered “The White Stairway”. Condition bottom has water damage image looks undamaged. Frame very...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Will Barnet
Materials
Lithograph
ARIADNE 1980 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Will Barnet
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Will Barnet
Ariadne - 1980
Print - Silkscreen on Heavy Paper 31 ¼'' x 23 ½' inches
Edition: Signed, Titled, and Marked in Roman numeral XXX ( from the edition to 50 - L)
unframed ex...
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1980s Will Barnet
Materials
Screen
Final Study for Atalanta, Girl with Apple
By Will Barnet
Located in Greenwich, CT
Will Barnet is one of America's best loved and known artists of the Post War era. He is highly distinctive for his figurative and narrative work and in some ways he is the Edgar All...
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1970s American Modern Will Barnet
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite, Color Pencil, Vellum
Will Barnet: A Timeless World (hand signed, dated and warmly inscribed)
By Will Barnet
Located in New York, NY
Will Barnet: A Timeless World (hand signed, dated and warmly inscribed), 2000
Softback monograph with stiff wraps (hand signed, dated and warmly inscribed)
Hand signed, dated and warmly inscribed to Margo by Will Barnet on the half title page
12 × 9 × 1/2 inches
We believe the colleague Margo refers to renowned African American artist Margo Humphrey, who also worked at the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking with Will Barnet.
The full inscription reads:
Sep 21 2000
To my colleague -Margo-
with appreciation and
affection
Will Barnet
Book information:
Published by the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey and Distributed by Rutgers University Press
English; Paperback; 124 pages containing 43 color and 20 black-and-white illustrations
Publisher's blurb:
Painter and printmaker Will Barnet has actively participated in the New York art world for nearly 70 years. A leading figure in the Indian Space painting movement of the late 1940s, Barnet stressed the spatial structures of Northwest Coast Indian art. Throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, he made a series of hardedged, totemic abstractions marked by their "all-positive" space, which he described as austere, classical expressions of Indian culture. He then moved on to new art forms in the 1960s and 1970s, creating a series of family and art world portraits that achieved a remarkable balance between the formal demands of abstraction and the humanist aspects of representation.
Will Barnet: A Timeless World is the first substantial publications to unify Barnet's prodigious output. Art historian Gail Stavitsky provides an overview of this artist's entire career. Twig Johnson, the museum's curator of Native American Art, discusses the relationship of Barnet's work to this important indigenous artistic tradition. Jessica Nicoll, chief curator at the Portland Museum of Art, explores the profound impact of New England upon Barnet and his work. Many of Barnet's works are beautifully reproduced in this catalog, containing 43 color and 20 black-and-white illustrations.
More about Will Barnet:
Will Barnet was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1911. He has taught and exhibited widely over his more than seventy-five year career. His works are in the collection of virtually every American museum, including locally The Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Whitney Museum of American. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In fall 2011 the National Academy Museum will present a retrospective exhibition being organized by Bruce Weber. Barnet is represented exclusively by Alexandre Gallery...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Will Barnet
Materials
Ink, Offset, Lithograph, Mixed Media, Paper
H 12 in W 9 in D 0.5 in
Antique American Modernist Portrait Signed Limited Edition Serigraph Interlude
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist interior scene by Will Barnet. Titled "Interlude". Signed and numbered limited edition from 1982.
Category
1980s Modern Will Barnet
Materials
Screen
Meditation and Minou
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
Artist: Will Barnet, American (1911 - 2012)
Title: Meditation and Minou
Year: 1980
Medium: Lithograph and Serigraph on BFK Rives, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 40/150
Category
1970s American Realist Will Barnet
Materials
Lithograph, Archival Paper
Meditation and Minou
By Will Barnet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Meditation and Minou
Color lithograph and serigraph, 1980
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo)
Printer Styria Studio, Inc. New York
Publisher: Harry Abrams...
Category
1980s American Realist Will Barnet
Materials
Screen
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