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.69.2021
Signature Recto, below lower right corner of image, in pencil: Ed Willis Barnett APSA ARPS
Inscription Recto, below lower left corner of image, in pencil: Ice Disk
Verso:
Upper left corner, stamp, scratched out in pencil: [Illegible]
Upper left corner, stamp with handwritten additions: VAILSBURG CC / 1960 NEWARK INTERNATIONAL / Pkg. # 228 Print # 1 Score 18
Upper center, in pencil: 6 [circled]
Upper left corner, adhesive label with handwritten additions following: Ed Willis Barnett, PSA / 3333 Marinette Road / Birmingham, Alabama / APSA ARPS
Upper left corner, stamp with handwritten additions: DET. INTL. SALON 73 / PACKAGE PRINT C-19 / [grid] 1 / 7 / 2 / 3
Upper left center, in pencil: Ice Disk / No 3 / Ektacolor
Center, adhesive label: ESC-7
Lower right corner, stamp with handwritten additions: TEANECK INVITATIONAL / CONTROL [illeg.]
Lower right corner, in black ink: R6-C-4 H 0
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
