Will Barnet: Seasons of Life

Drawing 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.

Barnet 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.

This exhibition, evoking the title of the artist’s famous screenprint series, The Silent Seasons, represents the shifting modes of Barnet’s career, looks for continuous throughlines, and commemorates AMFA’s long relationship with the artist.