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Study for the Collectors

Will Barnet

Artwork Details

Study for the Collectors
1977
Will Barnet
pencil on paper
19 1/16 x 24 in. (48.4 x 60.9 cm)
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 Nation Gallery of Art, with generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute for Museum and Library Services
2008/2.220

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Will Barnet
United States, born 1911
Study for the Collectors
1977
Pencil on paper
2008/2.220

Subject Matter:

This study for a portrait of the art collectors Dorothy and Herb Vogel shows them in profile from the shoulders up, facing left.

Physical Description:

Study for a portrait of the Vogels, with Herbert in the foreground and Dorothy visible behind him to the left. Line drawing in pencil with erasure marks. The portrait is sketched out in a square drawn on the sheet, and signed in the lower right corner. Notes to himself include: “Dot & Herb position?” (lower left corner), “proportion & lining up of the chins, eyes” (upper right corner).

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