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... Read full biography
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,... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 exactingly linear, subtly colored portraits of... Read full biography
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 exactingly linear, subtly colored portraits of family members and friends. In the enigmatic pictures he began making in the 1970s, he conjured images of... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (88)
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Will Barnet and the Art Students League (Exhibition catalog)
2010
Koob, Pamela
28 pages (color)
100 New York Painters
2006
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris
224 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Six Indian Space Artists (David Findlay Jr. Gallery) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Hollister, Barbara
17 pages (color)
Will Barnet: A Timeless World (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Stavitsky, Gail (ed)
124 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
0 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
Native American Art and the New York Avant-Garde
1995
Rushing, W Jackson
250 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference
1993
Henkes, Robert
260 pages (color)
South of the Border Mexico in the American Imagination, 1914-1947
1993
Oles, James/Karen Reiman
296 pages (color)
Painting in the North Alaskan Art in the Anchorage Museum
1993
Woodward, Kesler E
160 pages (color)
Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Hough, Katherine
111 pages (color)
Will Barnett Drawings 1930-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Wolfe, Townsend
98 pages (color)
A Spectrum of Innovation Color in American Printmaking 1890-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Acton, David
304 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
The Old Guard and Avant-Garde Modernism in Chicago 1910-1940
1990
Prince, Sue Ann
304 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Gerdts, Abigail Booth
208 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
Collected Essays on 101 Art Works From the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Musem
1988
Wooden, Howard E
212 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
Artists Against War and Fascism Papers/First American Artists' Congress
1986
Baigell, Mathew/Julia Williams
310 pages
The Figure in American Art 1764-1983 Three Simultaneous Exhibitions: Kennedy Galleries (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Baur, John I.H.
72 pages (color)
Insights & Outlooks American 20th Century Watercolors & Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Fleischman, Martha (Intro)
36 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists Observed
1986
Stein, Harvey
160 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Wooden, Howard E
151 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
Will Barnet American Artist
1984
Flexner, James Thomas
167 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
95 pages
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
American Printmaking A Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980
1984
Watrous, James
334 pages (color)
American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers
1983
Adams, Clinton
228 pages (color)
Prints A Collector's Guide
1983
Kaplan, Ellen
253 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
Gloria & Donald Marron Collection of American Prints (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Wallen, Burr
160 pages
American Prints and Printmakers A Chronicle of Over 400 Artists
1980
Johnson, Una E
266 pages (color)
West '80 Art and the Law (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Minnesota Museum of Art
80 pages (color)
Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst
544 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Museum of Fine Arts The American and European Collections
1979
Springfield Library & Museum
216 pages (color)
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)