View from Studio Blizzard of Dec. 22, 2009 Mary Elizabeth Barnet-Schiff
Pencil on paper 11" x 14" Stephan Caldwell & Will Elliot Collection of Capt. Judith Epstein
US Navy Active Duty
This was based on a photo I had seen of Nazi's standing around a table with human heads on it. I call it "Lest We Forget" While attrocities play out on the Earth, still "The Dance Goes On" This is a portrait of a man who murdered a man not 500 feet from where my studio is. My Scottish Great Grandfather Frances Gunn Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman is a Associate Curator of Zooarchaeology in the Arizona State Museum
Collection Professor Barbara Epstein California I copied a Beckman sel portrait and put my head on it This portrait won The Student Concours prize in 1966 and was
reproduced in the Winter 1967-68 Art Students League of NY Catalog
for the Barnet Class. I was 17 years old and had just seen the first retrospective show of Alberto Giacometti at MoMa
This too I did after the Giacometti show
Pencil on bristol board
11" x 14" pencil on board 11" x 14"
Collection Robert K. Haelig Jr.
Eldest daughter of my teacher Will Barnet Formerly in the Collection of Mary Sinclair pencil on strathmore drawing board 16" x 20"
2009
collection Stephan Caldwell
The Days When Names Like John Paul Jones Ran Out The Mighty Oceans dwarf our greatest heroics This then the shoreline that greeted the Pilgrims Will Barnet once suggested this would make a great subject as we sat looking at it one evening. I took him up on it. Ethel Rosenberg and her husband Julius were electrocuted at Sing Sing
Killing this woman, mother of two was a great crime.
Keith is a poet and painter who lives in Cape Cod, and was my classmate under Will Barnet at the Art Students League of New York in 1966. Permanent Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Jerusalem Pavao in his Massachisetts studio in the 20th century Vidbel's Circus big top on Barnegat Bay in Island Heights NJ In 1966 I found an old Piaf record of La Vie en Rose in a neighbor's garbage can in Greenwich Village. I took it home and played it till the needle worked its way through the vinyl to the flip side. Collection W. John Schmelz III Win's home burned down not long after mine did in 1994 Collection of Mary Marshall, Port Ewen NY Collection Arthur Sacks, Pennsylvania
View from Studio Blizzard of Dec. 22, 2009
Pencil on bristol board
11" x 14"
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