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
“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: $1,100
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: $2,750
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: 10 of 75
Provenance: Collection of Todd Barnet
Condition: Excellent
Price: $1,650
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: $1,650