study for The Great Grandmother

Will Barnet, artist

1911–2012

study for The Great Grandmother, 1984

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: heavy paper; black crayon

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 50.8 x 47.62 cm
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in

Credit line: The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services

Accession number: 2009.0037

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Exhibition Label:
"NetWorks: Art and Artists from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection," Mar-2011, Susan Earle, Stephen Goddard, and SMA Interns
Throughout his long career, Will Barnet
continues to emphasize a thoughtful and precise use of line. He has reported that he might produce a hundred drawings in the
preparation of a single painting, and it is clear
that for Barnet, line is the critical element in
defining form: “The drawing has to become a painting; line has to be become mass.” Will Barnet turns 100 this year.