$350
The Island
BARKER, Albert
Lithograph on wove paper. Reference: Barker 123. Edition of 31.Signed in pencil.
Albert BARKER
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Albert Winslow Barker (1874-1947) is an artist whose mastery of tonality can be attributed to his color blindness. He transformed this visual handicap into a virtue from the start of his career. At the age of 19, while a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, two of his charcoal drawings were exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
In the lithographs, aquatints, and drawings created throughout his lifetime, his affinity for tonal variations and subtle gradations of light suggests aesthetic parallels to better-known artists like Martin Lewis and Edward Hopper.
With an eye for soft textures and the ability to infuse landscapes with atmospheric emotion, Albert Winslow Barker's prints have a special appeal to connoisseurs of American printmaking traditions to this day.
