On eBay Now...WILL BARNET Artist autographed Youth Banner Card, March 19, 1980 For Sale
WILL BARNET Artist autographed Youth Banner Card, March 19, 1980:
$240.00
We offer an autographed 4" x 6" card of a photograph of the artist's 1976 Bicentennial Banner entitled "Youth", March 19, 1980.
Barnet has boldly autographed the face of the card. The artist himself issued the card, the banner was designed for the Bicentennial and below on the verso it advertises his printer who produced the banners, Chuck Levitan Inc., Works of Art in New York City.
WillBarnet (1911 – 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings,watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, bothin casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.
Bornin 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wantedto be an artist. As a student, he studied with Philip Leslie Hale at the Schoolof the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and viewed first-hand John Singer Sargent atwork on the murals of the Boston Public Library. In 1930, Barnet studied at theArt Students League of New York, with Stuart Davis and Charles Locke, beginninghis long association with the school. Here he concentrated on painting as wellas printmaking, and, in 1936, he became the official printer for the ArtStudents League. There, he later instructed students in the graphic arts at theschool and taught alongside the likes of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Beverly Haleand Richard Pousette-Dart. Barnet influenced a generation of artists, includingJames Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Emil Milan, Paul Jenkins and Cy Twombly. Barnetcontinued his love of teaching with positions at the Cooper Union, at YaleUniversity, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He had three sons,Peter, Richard, and Todd Barnet, by his first wife Mary Sinclair. Barnet latermarried Elena Barnet, with whom he had a daughter, Ona Barnet.
Alongtime resident of the National Arts Club, Barnet died in New York City onNovember 13, 2012, at the age of 101.
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Hisworks have entered virtually every major public collection in the UnitedStates, including, the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, theMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum,and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has been the subject of overeighty solo exhibitions held at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum ofAmerican Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the National Academy ofDesign Museum, the National Museum of American Art, Montclair Art Museum, theBoca Raton Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and theWorcester Art Museum, among others.
Barnetwas the recipient of numerous awards, including the first Artist's LifetimeAchievement Award Medal given on the occasion of the National Academy ofDesign's 175th anniversary, the College Art Association's Lifetime AchievementAward, the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art's Lippincott Prize, and theAmerican Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Childe Hassam Prize. He wasan elected member of the National Academy of Design, the Century Association,and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Barnet defined an artistic careerthat, in the words of Robert Doty, "has always gone beyond the limitationsof modern art because his work affirms a faith in life." Barnet wasawarded the 2011 National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. In 2012,France conferred the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters onBarnet.
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