Will Barnet
Painter and printmaker Will Barnet was born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1911. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston from 1927 to 1931 and the Art Students League, where he was appointed professional printer of the institution. Concentrating on lithography, Barnet became a greatly respected teacher at the League in 1941, and disseminated his appreciation of art history, modernism, and Native American art to many inspired pupils into the 1980s. Barnet also taught at Cooper Union, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Cornell University, Yale University, the University of Minnesota, and George Washington University. Barnet is an acclaimed painter and printmaker, whose work has been exhibited in prominent museums and galleries in the United States and Canada and is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.