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Title is Template. 36" by 48" unframed. Acrylic on Canvas. From the Private Collection of James H and Pauline Harken. Inventory #26 Bill Barrett (Born 1934) is active/lives in New York, California. Bill Barrett is known for Photo construction sculpture, painting. Sculptor Bill Barrett was born in Los Angeles, California and studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he received both a B.S. and a M.S. in design, as well as an MFA. A longtime resident of New York City, Barrett now divides his time between Santa Fe and New York. His work has been widely shown in major museums and galleries coast to coast and in Switzerland and Japan. In addition, many of his works are owned by both corporate and private collector. Barrett works in three stages: A small bronze maquette, which the author Michael Brenson has described as "typically quirky, experimental, and figurative." The next stage involves blowing up the work into welded and polished aluminum. At this stage the sculpture is, as Brenson writes, "lighter now and closer in form and structure to Cubism and David Smith." Finally, Barrett creates more airy, and the effect is increasingly architectural . . . with a lightness and directness" (Michael Brenson, "The New York Times", 1985). Barrett's approach to art is basically humanistic. "Art helps people understand themselves better," he says. "I come from an expressionist attitude about what art is for. It's an involvement, that of the artist with his art and that of the art with the viewer. It becomes a very intimate conversation among the three, which is not new. It's always been this way. (Personal interview, Valentine Riddell, Santa Fe, 1992)