Dialogue in Green 1970, Signed Artist's Proof Lithograph by Will Barnet

Description

Dialogue in Green, 1970, Rare Artist's Imp. (Impressit - which means Barnet printed himself). A singular print outside of the … more Dialogue in Green, 1970, Rare Artist's Imp. (Impressit - which means Barnet printed himself). A singular print outside of the limited edition. Signed "Will Barnet" in pencil on right and title in pencil on left. Inscribed "Artist's Imp" in pencil in center. Color lithograph on paper in beuatful brushed chrome mid-century modern frame with elegant matting.

Dimensions: 21" wide x 1" deep x 15" high overall (inches)
Lithograph is 16" wide x 10" high (inches)

Artist's Bio:

Will Barnet (1911-2012) was a painter, printmaker, and educator, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. Barnet's images of women and domestic scenes, distinctive in their emphasis on flat painting surfaces, are meditative in tone and beautiful in composition. He was masterful at careful arrangements of forms that express moods and feelings. Barnet began his formal studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, where he was a pupil of the painter Philip Hale between 1927 and 1930.

His work is represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Carnegie Institute; Cleveland Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Will Barnet died at his home in Manhattan, New York on November 13, 2012. less