WILL BARNET (1911 - 2012) Study for "The White Stairway".
Graphite on vellum, 1973. 1410x584 mm; 55½x23 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts (label). Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine (label). Babcock Galleries, New York (label). Estate of the artist.
Exhibited "Will Barnet in Provincetown," Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Massachusetts, August 19-October 23, 2011. "The Art of Will Barnet," Ogunquit Museum of Art, Maine, June 21-August 12, 2012.
Will Barnet's use of repetitive patterns as well as a bold left to right diagonal composition in this work create a rhythmic staccato movement and a provocative separation between the two female subjects.
The White Stairway, Barnet's color screenprint for which the present work is a study for, was printed by Fine Creations, Inc., New York and published by Associated American Artists, New York in 1974 (see Szoke 154).
