About Will Barnet

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    Following is the obituary of the artist from The New York Times

    Will Barnet, Visionary Artist, Dies at 101
    By KEN JOHNSON
    Published: November 13, 2012

    Will Barnet, a printmaker and painter known for elegantly stylized portraits and classically composed visions of beautiful women and children, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 101.

    His death was announced by Philippe Alexandre, whose gallery represented him. He had lived in the National Arts Club building on Gramercy Park since 1982.

    In the prints and paintings that he produced from the mid-1960s on, Mr. Barnet ranged between a simplified form of realism and a poetic, visionary symbolism. A skilled draftsman, he created exa...

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