Additional photographic material is primarily color photographic prints, along with a few negatives and transparencies. One folder includes photographs of Will Barnet with family, friends, and colleagues. Here, Barnet is captured in portraits, in his studio, teaching, and in group photographs. Several dozen packets of photographs from the 1990s-2000s were taken as source photographs that Barnet used to create his paintings. In these photographs, family members and friends serve as models, and preliminary stages of drawings and paintings are captured in process. Other photographs document Barnet's artwork in the later part of his career.
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Collection Citation:
Will Barnet papers, 1897, 1929-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Funding for the preservation and transfer of motion picture film was provided by the Smithsonian Women's Committee.
