Feb 28, 2006 - Sale 2068

Sale 2068 - Lot 103

Price Realized: $ 1,035
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
BARNET, WILL. Swing Shift. Etching, 10x10 inches (image size), trimmed outside the plate mark. Signed, titled "Negro Tailor," dated, and dedicated "To Dorothy Lewis, Will Barnett, 1937," in ink, lower margin. Print appears in the catalogue raisonné as "Swing Shift." From an edition of 30 on Rives. Cole 40. [New York], 1937

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Barnett, born 1919 in Philadelphia, studied at Pratt Institute and Temple University. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958 and taught for many years at the Philadelphia Museum Art School.