Will Barnet
1911-2012
Untitled
ca. 1948-1949
5 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (140 x 108 mm)
Watercolor on printed envelope.
2009.384
Gift of Will and Elena Barnet, 2009.
© Will Barnet / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Notes
Will Barnet's career spanned nearly eight decades during which he successively embraced different styles, abstract and figurative. This drawing reflects Barnet's involvement with the so-called Indian Space Painters, a group of artists who set out to create a specifically American abstract style by looking for inspiration in Native American art. Fond of using found paper as a support, Barnet created this composition over a used envelope.
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