Oral history interview with Will Barnet
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 28 min.
label: General
content: Sound quality is poor.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Barnet, Will, 1911-2012
label: Interviewer
content: Polcari, Stephen
topic: label: Topic
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators. Funding for this interview was provided by the Horace N. Goldsmith Foundation.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Barnet, Will, 1911-2012
label: Interviewer
content: Polcari, Stephen
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Will Barnet (1911- ) is a painter and printmaker from New York, New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording, analog)
label: Extent
content: 45 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1993 April 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barnet93
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript available on line
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Will Barnet conducted 1993 April 9, by Stephen Polcari, for the Archives of American Art, in Barnet's studio, at 15 Gramercy Park, New York. Barnet talks about his education at the Boston Museum School and the Art Students League; art education after the Abstract Expressionists; the development of his own work between the 1930's and the 1970's; his involvement with the Indian Space movement; and his work with the Florsheim and Elizabeth Foundations and the Creative Artists Network.