Child Among Thorns

Will Barnet

Child Among Thorns

Offset Lithograph

22 x 30 inches

Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia.

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From the Artist

The 1950s were devoted almost entirely to the formal abstract aspects of painting and printmaking and preoccupation with the two-dimensional reality of the surface and the play of form and color, the major objects being human shapes and forms.
_{—Adapted and excerpted from https://www.wilkes.edu/about-wilkes/arts/sordoni-art-gallery/past-exhibitions/_assets/_pdf_archives/1998-Will-Barnet.pdf}

In the 1950s, Barnet and master-printer Robert Blackburn conducted pioneering experiments in color lithography, using as many as 17 lithographic stones to capture the hues in one final print. Barnet was also experimenting with abstraction inspired by children's art.
_{—Adapted and excerpted from https://www.wilkes.edu/about-wilkes/arts/sordoni-art-gallery/past-exhibitions/_assets/_pdf_archives/1998-Will-Barnet.pdf}