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Will Barnet
[American Painter, 1911-2012]
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Will Barnet Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Will Barnet available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Will Barnet at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock The Mirror, 1981
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Ariadne
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City (Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Emily Dickenson
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio CIRCE II
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Soliloquy
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire 8 works online
Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #4
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Missoula Art Museum, Montana (Click on the object number for the artwork title & other information)
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey Slideshow of works from the 2007 exhibition Will Barnet: Recent Works
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City 6 works online
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Reclining Woman, 1978
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Aurora
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Waiting
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Child Alone, lithograph, 1951
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine "My Father's House: Artist Will Barnet Returns to his New England Roots" (2008)
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine Emily Dickinson
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas Mother and Child, 1961
Resource Library Magazine Barnet by Barnet: An Installation of Portraits
Resource Library Magazine
Will Barnet at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. 1993 interview from the Oral History project
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
 Will Barnet: A Timeless World
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