Study for the Collectors / Will Barnet
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2008/2.220
- Title
- Study for the Collectors
- Artist
- Will Barnet
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 1911-2012
- Medium and Support
- pencil on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1977
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- American
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- American
- Style/Group/Movement
- portraiture
- Period
- Modern and contemporary
- Dimensions
- 48.4 cm x 60.9 cm (19 1/16 in. x 24 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- study
- Physical Description
- Study for a portrait of the Vogels, with Herbert in the foreground and Dorothy visible behind him to the left. Line drawing in pencil with erasure marks. The portrait is sketched out in a square drawn on the sheet, and signed in the lower right corner. Notes to himself include: “Dot & Herb position?” (lower left corner), “proportion & lining up of the chins, eyes” (upper right corner).
- Subject Matter
- This study for a portrait of the art collectors Dorothy and Herb Vogel shows them in profile from the shoulders up, facing left.
- Primary Keywords
- couples
- double portraits
- drawings by technique
- husbands
- life drawings
- men
- portraits
- preliminary sketches
- preparatory drawings
- profiles (figures)
- sketches
- wives
- women
- working drawings
- Secondary Keywords
- image form
- components and systems
- drawings
- drawings by function
- drawings by subject type
- group portraits
- object groupings
- object groupings and systems
- object groupings by general context
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by family relationship
- people by gender
- sets (groups)
- spouses
- views
- views by vantage point or orientation
- visual works
- visual works by form
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3044 x 2407
- File Size
- 832 KB
- Record
- 2008/2.220
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.220/2008_2_220.jpg
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"Study for the Collectors; Will Barnet." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-2.220/2008_2_220.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.