"WILL BARNET: A TIMELESS WORLD"
2000-05-14 until 2000-08-20
Montclair Art Museum
Montclair, NJ, USA

This exhibition features the work of Will Barnet, a leading American modernist who began his career in the early 30s. He is well known for his prolific prints and paintings ranging in style from Social Realism to Abstraction.

IMAGE:
Will Barnet
Old Mans Afternoon, 1947
Oil on canvas
47 x 36 in.
Private collection

Works from the Permanent Collection of The Montclair Art Museum by predecessors and colleagues of Will Barnet are featured on the exhibition WILL BARNET IN CONTEXT. Among the artists represented are Stuart Davis, Raphael Soyer, Arshile Gorky, Ad Reinhardt, Ilya Bolotowsky, George L.K. Morris, Steve Wheeler, and many others.

IMAGE:
Steve Wheeler (1912 -1992)
Portrait, 1942
Watercolor on paper
20 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.
Museum purchase;
prior gifts of Mrs. William H. C. Higgins,
Betty Parsons, and prior bequest of Jennie J. Robertson
1994.44

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