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WILL BARNET Study for "The Silent Seasons— Winter."
Pencil on vellum, circa 1967. 1230x910 mm; 48 3/8x35 7/8 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto.
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
The Silent Seasons series of four oils on canvas are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In The Silent Seasons— Winter, Barnet (1911-2012) painted his daughter, Ona, holding a wool yarn that descends from the beak of a parrot. According to Johanna Garfield, in her 1995 American Art article, "Personal Selection: Will Barnet and Family," based on her interviews with the artist, according to Barnet's "hieroglyphic art," a parrot usually is symbolic of his father, Noah. The Silent Seasons were issued as color lithographs from 1968 through 1974 (see Szoke 136-137, 143 and 153).
