Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Patrick Cather, Shoal Creek, Alabama, in memory of his parents, Bill & Virginia Cather who introduced him to the artist ca. 1963, AFI.71.2021
Signature Below print, on mat, lower right, in pencil: Ed Willis Barnett APSA / ARPS
Inscription Recto, below print, on mat, lower left, in pencil: Clear Track
Verso:
Upper left, printed label: Ed Willis Barnett, PSA / 3333 Marinette Road / Birmingham, Alabama
Above printed label, in pencil: APSA ARPS
Center left, in pencil: Clear Track / No. 4
Center right, in pencil: Ektacolor / 5
Center, stamped in black ink: SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL / PKG # [handwritten] 158 PRINT # [handwritten] 4 / [in graphic dividing numbers] 1 2 3
Center left, adhesive label wtih handwritten number: ESC-43
Upper right, in red pencil: [struckthrough] CP-647 / 6B-A
Upper right, typed adhesive label: Fresno / [handwritten in red ink] 490 - 1 / Sccre / 1 - [handwritten in pencil] /5 / 2- / Cat. No.
Lower right, in pencil: 4
Provenance Ed Willis Barnett (1899-1987), Birmingham, Alabama; purchased by or gift to Bill (1918-2016) and Virginia (1921-1989) Cather, Birmingham, Alabama [see note 1]; inherited by their son Patrick Cather (born 1947), Shoal Creek, Alabama; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2021
1. Some of the five works in the group of Ed Willis Barnett photographs given by Patrick Cather in 2021 were gifts by Barnett to Bill and Virginia Cather and some were purchased from the artist. Email between Patrick Cather and Katelyn Crawford, July 21, 2021
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