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Painting By Herbert Barnett: Sea Shells At Childs Gallery

Herbert Barnett

American (1910-1972)

Sea Shells, circa 1952
Oil on canvasboard
11×232225IN.CM

Signed upper right: ‘H Barnett’. From the estate of the artist.

Painted in Cincinnati at the artist’s home studio. There are two other versions of this subject, a series of sea shells arranged in horizontal order. While Barnett used a narrow horizontal format for his depiction of country auctions in Vermont a decade earlier, his use of this format for still life is unique to these sea shell studies. The shells were a gift from a next-door neighbor in Cincinnati who was an avid traveler and shell collector.

Signature: Signed upper right
$4,000