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Woman Reading

1970

Will Barnet

Associated Names

Will Barnet

Artist, American, 1911 - 2012

This print depicts a person lying down in bed with a white pillow behind their head. The person has pale yellow skin, blue eyes, dark hair, and dark lips in a neutral expression. Their arms are bent, and they are holding up a blue book that covers their forehead. There appears to be another white pillow on their chest, and they have a bright red blanket over them. A white cat is laying on the pillow on top of their chest. The background is dark greenish brown.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color screenprint on wove paper
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation
Dimensions

image: 90.81 × 68.58 cm (35 3/4 × 27 in.)
sheet: 103.98 × 74.61 cm (40 15/16 × 29 3/8 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.8
Catalogue Raisonné

Cole 1972, no. 137

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2008

Associated Names

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams

Bibliography

1972

Cole, Sylvan. Will Barnet: Etchings, Lithographs, Woodcuts, Serigraphs, 1932-1972, Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Associated American Artists, 1972, no. 137.

Inscriptions

In pencil: lower left, Woman Reading; signed lower right, Will Barnet

Wikidata ID

Q76440145

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