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Call for Artists
Our membership includes art lovers, curators and museum officials,
as well as artists and people who simply love the Barnes.
If
you would like to have Friends of the Barnes include a piece of your
artwork on our web site so it can be seen by those who visit or,
if you want us to link to your web site, please get in touch with
Nancy Herman at nherman6@comcast.net.
Half
the sale price will be yours. The other half will be for our legal
fund. The work does not have to deal with the Barnes situation. We
will link our web site to yours and hope you will link yours to ours.
In this way all the artists who participate will be linked to each
other as well as to Friends of the Barnes. The
saga of the Barnes Foundation has had many twists and turns. Now
artists are creating work that addresses some issues about this story
that touch them.
Following this letter there are links to some of these
artists. Friends of the Barnes will be collecting the names of other
work as it is created and encouraging more artists
to join in. This
is an issue that touches at the heart of the art community
.
It is not new that artists are not supported during their lifetime.
But what is becoming more apparent in recent years is that the product
of artists is being used to generate income for many people who have
no interest in art or the way it is displayed. Instead the focus has
become turning art into a commodity, so that it becomes just another
piece of merchandise. The money generated by this commercialization
does not go into the pocket of any working artists or help people to
understand what an artistic experience is, which would be a benefit
to living artists. In fact it does just the opposite. By com-modifying
art, turning it into refrigerator magnets and doormats, art is trivialized.
Those who might be moved by discovering the real thing are numbed by
reproductions, hoopla, and taped lectures. The magic that once could
be experienced in front of the originals is often drained away.
In the case of the Barnes Foundation we have a man who genuinely
loved art, created a gallery especially to house it and a philosophy
which has encouraged thousands of people over the years to appreciate
it. Those who would move the art five miles in order to boost tourism
in Philadelphia just want to get their hands on this art without
any respect for the experience of seeing it in the way it was intended
to be appreciated. It is the commodity they are interested in,
the art collection worth billions of dollars, not the experience.
Our
cultural community is starved for funds. $200-300 million, the
amount allocated for the move of the Barnes art collection, would
go a long way to benefit artists working today and create a more
vital arts community. This would leave the Barnes Foundation to
be experienced as it was meant to be, with all its historic resonance
and the experience of nature surrounding it, for future generations.
Perhaps artists, working their magic to change perceptions as only
art can, will save the Barnes.
This is a good beginning. I hope
you will join the fight.
Art created about the proposed move.
• ArtJail in Philadelphia
• ArtJail
in Philadelphia -
Video -
• Barnes Reverie - Video -
• Paul Cret - Video -
Art donated for the Legal Defense Fund by 24 talented artists:
• Antonio Puri
"Bhakti 1" - Mixed Media on Canvas, 48" X 48" - $6000.00
Half the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Jane Behrends
"Carnegie Lake" - Archival signed print, unframed 19x26, $180.00 - or framed, 24x29 - $330.00
"Swamp" - Signed print, unframed 17x22 1/2 , $140.00 - or framed, 21x27- $290
Half the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Mark Barry
"The Trollers" - Lithograph, edition 20, paper 29.5x29.5", printer Brian Garner, Lowki Press,
signed, numbered and embossed by the press - $425.00
"Departures " - Lithograph over mono print, 26x18", edition of 6 unique, 2008 - Printer: Brian Garner, Loki Press - $325
All the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Karen Kilimnik
"
The Matterhorn at Night, Dreamland, 9pm, 3am, Zermatt
2007"
Inkjet / Hand Lithograph, glitter, 22"x18.8" - $2000.00
All the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Roz Bloom
"A Bad Day" mixed media, 15 1/2" x 15 1/2" - $450
"Aegean Encounter" mixed media, 8" x 10" - $400
"Moonlit Night" mixed media, 10" x 8" - $400
Half the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Laura Jean Zito
"Cairo Watering the Tree of Life" - Chromogenic color photograph, hand-printed in a lab in NYC - $675.00
Half the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Stuart Shils
"New York Buildings I and II" - 13" x 19"Photograph
printed on archival paper with archival inks - $500.00 each
Half the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Alan Soffer
"G-Spot II" - encaustic on board 16"H x 21"W - $1000
Half the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• French artist Jean Claude Gracia
"The guardian" - ink on paper 17 1/2" x 22 1/2 " - $150.00
All the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
"The olive field with the 2 woman" - oil on canvas 24 x 36 - $2000
"The garden of my childhood" - oil on canvas 22 x 28 - $1200
Half the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Eleanor Schimmel: work with encaustics, a unique medium of melted bees wax and
pigment
"Koi" - Giclée print with encaustic and gold leaf embellishment 8" x 10" - $350.00
Half the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• We are delighted to offer the exciting work of Johan Wahlstrom, a
Swedish artist who is now living in Marbella, Spain. His work is
featured in galleries throughout the world.
Article about Johan Wahlstrom's work in DownTown LA Life
Examples of work for sale
on Fine Art America
Biography and some of his own words about his
work
He has generously offered to donate half the price of any art
work on the Fine Art America site to our cause.
• Jock Sturges, signed and numbered framed gelatin silver photograph.
Anonymously donated. - $1500.00
$1000.00 go to the Legal Defense Fund
• Philip Cohn: Oil paintings in
a gold leaf frame
"Jersey Beach" - with frame 16" x 20" - $800.00
"Nice, France" - with frame
21"x 17" - $800.00
Half the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Francis McCarthy (1923-2005)
This work is donated by Thelma McCarthy in
memory of her husband.
"Philadelphia Art Museum" - framed and matted, l8x 24, Silkscreen, 1985 -
$400
"Childrens' Amusements" - framed and matted, l0 x l3, 1998 - $500
All the proceeds go to the Legal
Defense Fund
• Homeless
Museum presents Barnes Foundation Make Up
It’s Finally Here!
Order Your Barnes Makeup Foundation Kit Today and Show the World a New Face!
Half the proceeds go to the Legal Defense Fund.
• Allison McElroy, stain, conte, graphite,
on sheet metal
"Girl with Water Jug" - 6 3/4" x 5" , stain, conte, graphite,
on sheet metal, framed 18" x 14" - $275
Half the proceeds go to the Legal Defense Fund
• Lynn Blackwell Denton, gouache/oil
pastel paintings
"Weather
II" - 12" x 16", gouache/oil pastel - $300.
"Mirage" - 16
3/4" x 20 1/2" (framed), gouache/oil pastel - $400.
"Zig-Zag Dream" -
16 3/4" x 20 1/2" (framed), gouache/oil pastel -
$400.
"Matisse's Goldfish Bowl" (diptych)- 96" x 60" Acrylic/canvas; -
$3,000.
Half the proceeds go to the Legal Defense Fund
• Hope Broker, 3 pen, ink and
water color works.
"Standing Nude, red hair" - $300.00
"Seated Nude two poses" - $300.00
"Seated Nude with Flowered Wallpaper" - $300.00
Half the proceeds go to the Legal Defense Fund
• Austin Tremellen Pottery
Size: 5''x15"- Medium: Earthenware - $250
Half the proceeds go to the Legal Defense Fund
• B.J. Adams' embroidery
"Catching
the Moment" - 30" x 25.5 Machine embroidery on painted canvas -
$3000.00
"Isolated Permanence" - 24" x 30 "
machine embroidery on various manipulated fabrics - $1500.00
Half the proceeds go to the Legal Defense Fund
• Nancy Herman - Collage
of old Museum posters
"Museums speak" - 40" x 11.5" A limited edition, signed archival print of collage of old museum
posters - $300.00
All the proceeds go to the
legal defense fund
"Coffee Mandella" - 40" x 40" A limited edition, signed archival
print of collage of old coffee ads
and posters - $1000
"Cigar Box Top Mandella" - 20" x 20" A limited edition, signed
archival print of collage of old cigar box
tops - $600
"Coffee Break" -30" x 40" A limited edition, signed archival
print of collage of old coffee
ads and posters - $1000
"Puffs From the Past" - 32" x 40" A limited edition, signed archival
print of collage of old cigarette
ads and posters - $1000
"Big Cigars and Motor Cars" - 32" x 40" - A limited edition, signed
archival print of collage of old cigar, car
and tire ads and posters - $1000
"Time to Eat" - 40" x 12"
A signed limited edition archival digital print of collage of food label, posters and ads. -$600
Half the proceeds go to the Legal Defense Fund
• Marilyn
Henrion's Quilts:
"Night Thoughts #1" and "Night Thoughts #5" (Each quilt $9000.00)
Half
the proceeds of any quilt on
her site go to the Legal Defense Fund.
•
Barbara
B. Rosin: Oil paintings on board
"Sempre Caro" - 8" x 6", framed and matted 141/2" x 10" - $500.00
"Mid-Afternoon" - 7" x 10", framed and matted 121/2" x 16" -
$500.00
Half the proceeds go to the Legal Defense Fund
• Bill Ternay: court sketches
Bill Ternay
, versatile and talented long time Barnes Friend is offering limited edition,
signed prints of court sketches for our legal defense fund. -
$280.00
All the proceeds go to the Legal Defense Fund
If you would like to have Friends of the Barnes include a piece of
your artwork on our web site so it can be seen by those who visit or, if
you want us to link to your web site, please get in touch with Nancy Herman
at nherman6@comcast.net. |
