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WILL BARNET (1911-2012)
Group of 3 prints. Mary Sewing. Lithograph. 445x345 mm; 17 1/2x13 5/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 10. Signed, dated and titled in pencil, lower margin. 1936 * Norwalk. Etching and aquatint. 250x297 mm; 9 7/8x11 3/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 10. Signed and inscribed "Small Town" in pencil, lower margin. 1936 * Summer in the Park. Etching and aquatint. 210x290 mm; 8 1/4x11 1/2 inches, full margins. Edition of 18. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin. 1937.
Very good impressions. Szoke 32, 34 and 43.
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from 1928-30. He later won a 3-year scholarship to the Art Students League, New York, where he focused on printmaking. Throughout his career, he mastered a variety of techniques, including etching, woodcut and lithography. An extremely dynamic artist, Barnet changed his style significantly throughout his career. His earliest graphic works captured the social and economic despair which resulted from the Great Depression; during these years he also worked for the WPA, producing prints for the graphics arts division.
