1970s Will Barnet Original Signed, Titled & Numbered Limited Edition Serigraph "Soliloquy"

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Will Barnet Original signed and numbered serigraph titled, "Soliloquy" on Arches paper

I am the sole owner of this exquisite … Read more Will Barnet Original signed and numbered serigraph titled, "Soliloquy" on Arches paper

I am the sole owner of this exquisite Will Barnet having purchased it at a Gallery in Baltimore, MD in the early 1970's who represented his work. I have enjoyed it's beauty and simple elegance over the years. Will Barnet gained immense honors and praise and is one of America's premier artists. 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.

Measurement framed 22” H x 32” L
Image size 14.4” H x 26.5" L
Will Barnet 1911-2012

Will Barnet American Artist: b. 1911-2012. Will Barnet was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School and then at the Art Students League in New York. He cites Daumier as his first great inspiration at the age of 14, both for "his profound vision of life and his unequalled draftsmanship." A prolific graphic artist, Barnet changed his style significantly at different points in his career. His earliest works were influenced by expressionism. His work of the 1930s and 1940s deals with the social themes in the forefront of the depression era, but also the more personal theme of the mother and child. 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. From the earliest years Barnet valued concept equally with technique. Printmaking gave him a wider, freer means of expression although painting has remained another important medium throughout his career. He later taught art at such leading American schools as Yale University, Cornell University, the Art Students League and at Cooper Union. Among his students at Cooper Union were Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly. Barnett's 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, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

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.

Will Barnet
“Soliloquy”
Medium: Color Serigraph Arches paper
date: 1972

Edition: 225
Numbered 128/225

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