WILL BARNETPortrait of Seymour Lipton.Pencil on cream wove paper, 1939. 185x275 mm; 7x10 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto. Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the current owner; private collection, New York.Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet (1911-2012) attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston from 1928-30. He later won a three-year scholarship to the Art Students League, New York, where he focused on printmaking. Throughout his career, he mastered a variety of techniques, including etching, woodcut and lithography. An extremely dynamic artist, Barnet changed his style significantly throughout his career. His earliest graphic works captured the social and economic despair which resulted from the Great Depression; during these years he also worked for the WPA, producing prints for the graphics arts division.This is a portrait of his friend and fellow artist Seymour Lipton (1903-1986), who is known for his abstract expressionist sculpture.