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The David Barnett Gallery is Wisconsin's premier gallery and has the most diverse range of art available in any Wisconsin gallery, including works of art that represent more than 600 artists. The gallery specializes in European and American masters, regional and nationally recognized artists, and "emerging" Wisconsin artists. Latin American, Asian, and African American artists also adorn the gallery along with Ethnographic art from Africa, Indonesia, and Oceania. The gallery has a national reputation for its extensive collection of Picasso ceramics and Milton Avery oi...Read More

David Barnett Gallery

Established in 19661stDibs seller since 2017

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Featured Pieces

Untitled (Abstract in Red, Green, and Blue) with Graphite Drawing on Verso
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A colorful piece created with Watercolor Crayons. The artist's signature is in the bottom right corner of the artwork. There is some damage to this piece due to its age and ill stora...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Watercolor, Graphite

I am Man I am Not a Animal
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This original pastel by Simon Sparrow is a beautiful example of his earlier work, created circa 1970 when he first moved to Madison, Wisconsin. It is in good restored condition. A co...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Watercolor

"Le Temps, Apollon et les Saisons (Time, Apollo and the Seasons)" by Le Lorrain
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Temps, Apollon, et les Saisons (Time, Apollo, and the Seasons)" is an etching by Claude Gellée (Le Lorrain). This etching is the Fifth state (A). This state is also in collection...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

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Etching

Untitled (Geometric Abstract)
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A colorful piece created with Watercolor Crayons. The artist's signature is in the bottom right corner of the artwork. There is some damage to this piece due to its age and ill stora...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Paper, Crayon

Untitled (Portrait with Green Lips)
Located in Milwaukee, WI
A colorful piece created with Watercolor Crayons. The artist's signature is in the bottom right corner of the artwork. There is some damage to this piece due to its age and ill stora...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon, Pastel, Watercolor

"English Teddy Bear Company, " Watercolor by Bruce McCombs
By Bruce McCombs
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"English Teddy Bear Company" is an original signed watercolor by Bruce McCombs. It depicts the front window display of a toy store. The window allows the viewer to peek inside but al...
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Early 2000s Photorealist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Sketches from Western Summer Resorts Harper's Weekly
By Charles Graham
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sketches from Western Summer Resorts, Harper's Weekly" is a hand-colored wood engraving by Charles Graham. The artist engraved his signature into the piece. It depicts multiple scen...
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1880s Victorian Landscape Prints

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Engraving

"Door County, Wisconsin, " Landscape Silkscreen Travel Poster
By Schomer Lichtner
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Door County Wisconsin" is an original silkscreen by Schomer Lichtner. The artist signed the piece lower right in pencil and in the screen. This piece features an aerial view of a ba...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Ink, Screen

"Song 111, " an Acrylic on Paper signed by Karen Hoepting
By Karen Hoepting
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Song 111" is an original acrylic painting on paper signed in the lower right by artist Karen Hoepting. It depicts a lion at the transition between day and night. A blue bird also fl...
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Early 2000s Animal Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Machias Seal Island Light
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Wolf Kahn was commissioned by the Smithsonian to design a postcard for them. He made four designs and they selected a singular one. This drawing here is one of the few rejected desig...
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19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Pastel

"L'Entree en scene (The Emergence), " Color Lithograph after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"L'Entree en scene (The Emergence)" is a color lithograph after a 1961 original piece by Rene Magritte. A transparent bird flies over the ocean. The body of this bird shows through it a clean light sky with fluffy clouds. The view around the bird is instead the dark night, stars shine at the top of the scene. Clouds blow by and the waves are turbulent. Art: 20.25 x 14.25 in Frame: 31.38 x 25.38 in René-François-Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium and died on August 15, 1967 in Brussels. He is one of the most important surrealist artists. Through his art, Magritte creates humor and mystery with juxtapositions and shocking irregularities. Some of his hallmark motifs include the bourgeois “little man,” bowler hats, apples, hidden faces, and contradictory texts. René Magritte’s father was a tailor and his mother was a miller. Tragedy struck Magritte’s life when his mother committed suicide when he was only fourteen. Magritte and his two brothers were thereafter raised by their grandmother. Magritte studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. After graduating he worked as a wallpaper designer and in advertisement. It was during this period that he married Georgette Berger, whom he had known since they were teenagers. In 1926, René Magritte signed a contract with the Brussels Art Gallery, which allowed him to quit his other jobs and focus completely on creating art. A year later he had his first solo show at the Galerie la Centaurie in Brussels. At this show Magritte exhibited what is today thought of as his first surrealist piece, The Lost Jockey, painted in 1926. In this work a jockey and his steed run across a theater stage, curtains parted on either side. Throughout the scene, there are trees with trunks shaped somewhat like chess pawns with musical scores running vertically up their sides and branches sticking out from all angles. Critics did not enjoy this style of art; it was new, different, and took critical thought to understand, but The Lost Jockey was only the first of many surrealist artworks Magritte would paint. Because of the bad press in Brussels, René and Georgette moved to Paris in 1927, with the hope that this center of avant-garde art would bring him success and recognition. In Paris, he was able to become friends with many other surrealists, including André Breton and Paul Éluard. They were able to learn from and inspire one another, pushing the Surrealist movement further forward. It was also in Paris that Magritte decided to add text to some of his pieces, which was one of the elements that made his artwork stand out. In 1929, he painted one of his most famous oil works: The Treachery of Images. This is the eye-catching piece centered on a pipe. Below the pipe is written “Ceci n’est pas un pipe,” which translates to “This is not a pipe.” This simple sentence upset many critics of the time, for of course it was a pipe. Magritte replied that it was not a pipe, but a representation of a pipe. One could not use this oil on canvas as a pipe, to fill it with tobacco and smoke it. Thus, it was not a pipe. In 1930, Magritte and Georgette moved back to Brussels. Though they would travel to his exhibitions elsewhere, their home going forward would always be in Brussels. Magritte had his first American exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in 1936 and his first show in England two years later in 1938 at The London Gallery...
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2010s Surrealist Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

"Souvenir de Voyage (Memory of a Journey), " Lithograph after Rene Magritte
By René Magritte
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Souvenir de voyage (Memory of a Journey)" is a color lithograph after the original 1961 painting by Rene Magritte. A perplexing composition containing a giant green apple standing on a beach surrounded by rocks and the sea, all backlit by a two-toned sunset. A blue masquerade mask adorns the apple with narrow eyes. The anthropomorphized fruit appears to be watching very closely over the viewer. Artworks entirely made in France: from the production of the paper in Arches in the Vosges department to the traditional lithographic printing process, one drawing for each different color, one color per press run. The lithographs were authorized, supervised, and validated by the ADAGP (Society of Authors in the Graphic and Plastic Arts) and by Mr. Charly Herscovici, President of the Magritte Foundation, Chairman of the Magritte Museum, and unique representative of the Magritte Succession. Each lithograph features the dry stamps of the Magritte Foundation & ADAGP and is countersigned in pencil by Mr. Charly Herscovici. A proof of edition is printed on the back of each lithograph, guaranteeing its authenticity. Art: 13 x 9.87 Frame: 23.63 x 20.38 in Framed to conservation standards. Surrounded by a wide 100% cotton matboard border with a rounded moulding and filigree details, in an antique brushed gold finish René-François-Ghislain Magritte was born November 21, 1898, in Lessines, Belgium and died on August 15, 1967 in Brussels. He is one of the most important surrealist artists. Through his art, Magritte creates humor and mystery with juxtapositions and shocking irregularities. Some of his hallmark motifs include the bourgeois “little man,” bowler hats, apples, hidden faces, and contradictory texts. René Magritte’s father was a tailor and his mother was a miller. Tragedy struck Magritte’s life when his mother committed suicide when he was only fourteen. Magritte and his two brothers were thereafter raised by their grandmother. Magritte studied at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts from 1916 to 1918. After graduating he worked as a wallpaper designer and in advertisement. It was during this period that he married Georgette Berger, whom he had known since they were teenagers. In 1926, René Magritte signed a contract with the Brussels Art Gallery, which allowed him to quit his other jobs and focus completely on creating art. A year later he had his first solo show at the Galerie la Centaurie in Brussels. At this show Magritte exhibited what is today thought of as his first surrealist piece, The Lost Jockey, painted in 1926. In this work a jockey and his steed run across a theater stage, curtains parted on either side. Throughout the scene, there are trees with trunks shaped somewhat like chess pawns with musical scores running vertically up their sides and branches sticking out from all angles. Critics did not enjoy this style of art; it was new, different, and took critical thought to understand, but The Lost Jockey was only the first of many surrealist artworks Magritte would paint. Because of the bad press in Brussels, René and Georgette moved to Paris in 1927, with the hope that this center of avant-garde art would bring him success and recognition. In Paris, he was able to become friends with many other surrealists, including André Breton and Paul Éluard. They were able to learn from and inspire one another, pushing the Surrealist movement further forward. It was also in Paris that Magritte decided to add text to some of his pieces, which was one of the elements that made his artwork stand out. In 1929, he painted one of his most famous oil works: The Treachery of Images. This is the eye-catching piece centered on a pipe. Below the pipe is written “Ceci n’est pas un pipe,” which translates to “This is not a pipe.” This simple sentence upset many critics of the time, for of course it was a pipe. Magritte replied that it was not a pipe, but a representation of a pipe. One could not use this oil on canvas as a pipe, to fill it with tobacco and smoke it. Thus, it was not a pipe. In 1930, Magritte and Georgette moved back to Brussels. Though they would travel to his exhibitions elsewhere, their home going forward would always be in Brussels. Magritte had his first American exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York City in 1936 and his first show in England two years later in 1938 at The London Gallery...
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2010s Surrealist Still-life Prints

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Lithograph

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