Will Barnet
About the Artist
Will Barnet was born in 1911. Mr. Barnet trained at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and the Art Students League New York. By 1936 he had established himself as a professional printer and the youngest instructor of graphic arts ever to hold a faculty position at the Arts Students League. He later taught art at such leading American schools as Yale University and Cornell University.
By the 1940s, Barnet was well known as a painter and printmaker. A prolific graphic artist, Barnet changed his style significantly at different points in his career. His earliest works were influenced by expressionism; they were followed by abstract works in the 1950s and 1960s, and finally evolved into more figurative works of silhouetted forms set against geometrically designed backgrounds.
His work has been exhibited in prominent museums and galleries in the United States and Canada and is included in many prestigious collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Estates of Todd Barnet, Will Barnet & Consigned Prints
Will Barnet
“Roy Newberger”
Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 1967
Signed, titled, dated on versa
Size: 34.5 x 27 in.
Framed
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Big Grey”
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Year: 1962
Inscription
Size: 15.5 x 22.625 in.
Framed
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Excellent (not examined out of frame)
Price: On request
Will Barnet
“Elena”
Medium: Pencil on paper
Size: 17 x 14 in.
Signed in pencil
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Good
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Aurora (Gold)”
Year: 1977
Medium: Color serigraph
Signed, titled, dated and numbered
Edition: 64 of 250
Image: 16.5 x 40 in.
Sheet: 20.25 x 43.5 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Go-Go”
Year: 1947
Medium: Color serigraph on Rives paper
Sheet: 17 x 13 in.
Image: 11.5 x 9.5 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Good
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Striped Socks”
Year: 1999 (From the original plate created in 1946)
Medium: Etching and drypoint on warm white Hahnemuhle paper
Signed and titled in pencil
Image: 8.25 x 11.25 in.
Sheet: 15 x 17 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Little Joe (Miner's Son)”
Year: 1935
Medium: Lithograph on Rives paper
Image: 16.125 x 9.75 in.
Signed, titled and dated in pencil.
Edition: 12
Framed: 24 x 20 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Very good, not examined out of frame.
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Child Walking”
Year: 1999 (From the original plate created in 1939)
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Rives paper
Signed and titled in pencil
Image: 11.75 x 8.75 in.
Sheet: 19 x 15 in.
Edition: 25
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Gentleman”
Year: 1999 (From the original plate created in 1941)
Medium: Drypoint on warm white Hahnemuhle paper
Signed and numbered in pencil
Image: 6.5 x 4.75 in.
Sheet: 10 x 7.5 in.
Edition: 13 of 75
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Excellent
Price: On request
Will Barnet
“The Butchers Son”
Year: 1939
Medium: Woodcut on Japanese paper
Image: 13.375 x 15 in.
Edition: 20
Signed and titled in pencil.
Framed: 21 x 22 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Very good, not examined out of frame.
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Air in the City, No. 2 (City Child)”
Year: 1938
Medium: Etching on Rives paper
Image: 10.75 x 14 in.
Signed and titled in pencil
Edition: 60
Framed - 18.5 x 21.5 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Very good, not examined out of frame.
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Polka Dot Scarf”
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16.75 x 11.75 in.
Signed
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Good; mold on hair, unstretched and unframed
Price: On request
Will Barnet
“Peter and Rocker”
Year: 1939
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 12 in.
Signed
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Good; unstretched and unframed
Price: On request
Will Barnet
“Mary and Peter”
Year: 1939
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 24 x 30 in.
Signed
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Good
Price: On request
Will Barnet
“Mary Sewing”
Year: 1936
Medium: Lithograph on Rives paper
Image: 17.25 x 13.5 in.
Signed and titled in pencil
Edition: 10
Framed - 24 x 20 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Very good, not examined out of frame.
Price:
Will Barnet
“Makeshift Kitchen”
Year: 1935
Medium: Etching and aquatint on Rives paper
Image: 6.875 x 7.75 in.
Signed and titled in pencil
Edition: 20
Framed - 14 x 14.5 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Very good, not examined out of frame.
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Under the Table”
Year: 1939
Medium: Woodcut on Japanese paper
Image: 12.625 x 12 in.
Edition: 20
Signed and titled in pencil.
A.P.
Framed: 20 x 19 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Very good, not examined out of frame.
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Bob Blackburn”
Year: 2005
Medium: Etching on Sommerset Velvet white paper
Image: 10 x 5 in.
Sheet: 15 x 10 in.
Signed, numbered and titled in pencil.
A.P.: 17/20
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Excellent
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Woman w Cat Poster”
Will Barnet, David David, 1972
Sheet: 25 x 18 in.
Signed and inscribed “To Todd”
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Very Good
Price: On Request
Will Barnet
“Young Artists Poster”
Young Artists: Union Carbide Gallery, 1975
Sheet: 37 x 26 in.
Image: 30 x 23.25 in.
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Very Good
Price: On Request