{"title":"Will Barnet","description":"\u003cp\u003eDrawing from an extensive selection of works on paper by Will Barnet (1911 – 2012) in the AMFA Foundation Collection, this exhibition celebrates an artist for whom the pendulum between realism and abstraction swung profoundly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarnet was at the center of major American art movements—documenting social realities during the Great Depression, developing abstraction in the postwar New York art scene, and returning to a new type of realism in the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis exhibition, evoking the title of the artist’s famous screenprint series,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Silent Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e, represents the shifting modes of Barnet’s career, looks for continuous throughlines, and commemorates AMFA’s long relationship with the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWill Barnet : Seasons of Life \u003c\/em\u003ewill be on view May 2 - October 11, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"will-barnet-season-of-life-set-of-8-postcards","title":"Will Barnet: Season of Life Set of 8 Postcards","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWill Barnet\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from an extensive selection of works on paper by Will Barnet (1911 – 2012) in the AMFA Foundation Collection, this exhibition celebrates an artist for whom the pendulum between realism and abstraction swung profoundly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarnet was at the center of major American art movements—documenting social realities during the Great Depression, developing abstraction in the postwar New York art scene, and returning to a new type of realism in the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis exhibition, evoking the title of the artist’s famous screenprint series,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Silent Seasons\u003c\/em\u003e, represents the shifting modes of Barnet’s career, looks for continuous throughlines, and commemorates AMFA’s long relationship with the artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis exclusive 5 x 7 inch postcard set includes 2 postcards of each season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWill Barnet : Seasons of Life \u003c\/em\u003ewill be on view May 2 - October 11, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museum Store Products","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51989110685976,"sku":null,"price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1008\/8092\/files\/WillBarnetSeasonPostcard.png?v=1777035640"},{"product_id":"will-barnet","title":"Will Barnet Catalog","description":"\u003cp\u003eWill Barnet’s artistic career as a painter and printmaker spanned nearly eight decades of continuous creativity. Few artists, other than perhaps Picasso or Monet, can claim such an extended period of uninterrupted and innovative art making. From the darkness of the Great Depression to the opening decade of the twenty-first century, his oeuvre reflects his unique interpretation of the art world’s evolving genres: Social Realism, Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, and ultimately representational Minimalism with the human figure as his primary subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarnet was devoted to making art every day and worked diligently even at the very end of his life. “The Old Masters are still alive after 400 years, and that’s what I want to be,” he once said. “At the age of 10 or 12, I discovered that being an artist would give me an ability to create something which would live on after death.” Live on it does; in addition to his acclaimed body of work, he influenced a broad spectrum of artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, James Rosenquist, Cy Twombly, and Ethel Fisher, and he held teaching positions at the Cooper Union, Yale University, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarnet’s works can be found in nearly every major public collection in the United States, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Art. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including the first Artist’s Lifetime Achievement Award Medal given on the occasion of the National Academy of Design’s 175th anniversary. He was also awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Artist Book Foundation is delighted and honored to announce the upcoming publication of Will Barnet, the first comprehensive monograph on the artist in nearly 40 years. With scholarly essays by the four distinguished authors, an extensive plate section, a comprehensive chronology, lists of awards and exhibitions, as well as a detailed bibliography, this monograph will be a thorough presentation of Barnet’s iconic images and consistently evolving style while celebrating his unquenchable joie de vivre.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AMFA Curtis Finch Donation \/ The Artist Book Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51989275574552,"sku":"9781732986459","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1008\/8092\/files\/978-1-7329864-5-9-frontcover.jpg?v=1777040609"}],"url":"https:\/\/store.arkmfa.org\/collections\/will-barnet.oembed","provider":"Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}