Will Barnet

Born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1911, Will Barnet studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and then completed his formal education at the Art Students League in 1935. A leading American printmaker and painter, Barnet began his career as a long time art teacher at the Art Students League and at the Cooper Union. 

In the early 1960s he launched a series of family portraits that achieved a balance between the formal demands of abstraction and the humanist aspects of representation. From the late 1960s onwards, Barnet created a series of allegorical paintings of the seasons and other subjects. Women and sea images of works from the '70's are meditative, linear paintings that recall the work of Piero della Francesca and Ingres and have strong connections to Barnet's earlier work in terms of their humanist vision and classical compositions. 

 

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	The Swing  1984 Watercolor on Paper 34 x 18 inches