Betty Herbert

The Church and Lavender Fields

2001

Signed lower left: "Kainen". Inscribed verso: "Park Musicians- Discussion Jacob Kainen '65".

Signed lower right: “Herbert Barnett”. Published: Art Digest, November, 1939. Exhibited: Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1939. The Institute of Contemporary Art, “Art of New England”, 1939. Contemporary Arts, Inc., New York, November, 1939. Herbert Barnett was an American artist whose life and work was closely tied to New England, and yet, his distinctive style of painting draws upon both the American tradition of representation and the artistic innovations of the Cubists. He is known as a painter of extraordinary ability and a virtuoso draftsman. Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, Barnett grew up in Providence. While still in high school, he began to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. From 1927-31, he studied at the Boston Museum School and soon acquired a reputation for technical proficiency. At seventeen, he had his first one-man show at the Grace Horne Gallery in Boston and was already teaching private classes. After art school, where he won the Paige Travelling Fellowship, Barnett spent three years traveling and studying in Europe. In the late 1930s, Barnett's bold and expressive figure paintings and Cape Ann landscapes...

Signed and dated lower right: “Jason Berger ’99”. Titled verso: “DaFundo (Lisbon)”. From the estate of the artist. Boston Expressionist painter Jason Berger is revered for the vivid...

Hannah Barrett’s paintings imagine a colorful, absurdist world inhabited by eccentrics of ambiguous genders and time periods. With tongue-in-cheek nods to the past, Barrett combines...

This painting is one of various works by the artist depicting narratives in a narrow vertical format primarily influenced by the works of the German artist Max Beckmann . It is a lar...

Imaginary story, fable or fairy tale-like narrative of young boys hitchhiking on the back of a turtle signed and dated on reverse side. ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly or...

oil on linen on mounted board *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works a...

This whimsical work is an oil on linen canvas mounted on a cradled wood panel suitable for framing. It is signed and dated by the artist on reverse side. The colors are warm greens a...