Will Barnet

Major American artist Will Barnet was born in 1911 in Beverly, MA.  By the age of ten he knew that he would be an artist. As a young man, he studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  In 1930 he moved to New York where he studied worked under Stuart Davis. By 1936  he had established himself as a professional printer and the youngest instructor of graphic arts ever to hold a faculty position at the Arts Students League. By the 1940s, he had become well known as a painter and printmaker.  Around that time he began to explore Abstraction. The compositions of his work produced during his “Indian Space Period” focus primarily on form and color.  In the late 1960s, he returned to the overt figuration for which he is best known.  His figurative work retains the elegant line, color and spatial relationships of his earlier abstract work. Will, who has received numerous awards, now 99, still works every day.