Breakfast Table

Will Barnet (1911-2012)

Date

1942
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Etching and aquatint
Dimensions

Image: 4 15/16 x 7 in.
Sheet: 9 9/16 x 12 1/2 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l. in graphite: Breakfast Table
l.r. in graphite: Will Barnet
l.r. in graphite: S
l.c. in red ink: [arrow] 5" [marked out in graphite] [arrow]
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase in honor of the 50th Anniversary with funds provided by the Paper Guild
Accession Number

2011.2
Copyright

Public domain

Cassatt most likely executed this painting as she prepared for her debut with the impressionists at the group’s fourth exhibition, held in Paris in 1879. She was experimental and was fascinated with both natural and artificial light, radical foreshortening, the seemingly arbitrary cropping of silhouetted figures, matte surfaces, and the sketchy deployment of dry pigments (such as distemper and pastel), placing her at the vanguard of modern art.

Will Barnet: Relationships, Intimate and Abstract, 1935-1965

June 18, 2011–January 8, 2012

This celebratory exhibition marked Barnet’s 100th birthday by allowing viewers to witness the sophisticated progression of his art during the most pivotal period of his career, as he searched for the symbolic potential of forms through realism and abstraction.

Location: Off view

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