This black and white photograph represents haystacks in a field beyond a tree and its shadow, which occupy the foreground. Beyond the field and haystacks is a line of trees, another large field, and finally a horizon of large hills or mountains.

Killarney

Ed Willis Barnett

1958

Titles Killarney (Proper)
Artist Ed Willis Barnett, American, 1899 - 1987
Medium gelatin silver print
Dimensions sheet: 11 3/4 × 16 5/8 in. (29.8 × 42.2 cm) mat: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
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.68.2021
Work Type photograph
Classification Photographs

Signature Recto: In image, stylized device: EWB Below lower right corner of image, in pencil: Ed Willis Barnett FPSA EFIAP HonFNSPF ARPS
Inscription Recto, below lower left corner of image, in pencil: Killarney Verso: Upper left corner, stamp, scratched out in pencil: CavOilCade Exhibition / of / Photography / Port Arthur, Texas / [grid] Upper left corner, stamp with handwritten additions: CavOilCade Exhibition / of / Photography / Port Arthur, Texas / Judge / Round 1 11 / Round 2 / Round 3 / Accept / Reject / Package No. 198 / Print No. 3 Left center edge, stamp with handwritten additions: Wilmington International / Exhibition of Photography / Package No. 151 / Print No. 3 / 7 Left center edge, in pencil: LBX Center, stamped in black ink: Ed Willis Barnett / FPSA ARPS HonFNSPF EFIAP / 1024 South 43rd St. / Birmingham Ala. Center, stamp with handwritten additions: PSA-SEATTLE-1967 / PKG NO. 162 / PRINT NO. 3 / JUDGES A 2 / B 2 / C 2 / TOTAL 6 Center, written in pencil: Killarney / No. 1 (CB) Left center, stamped with handwritten additions: No. 223-3 / LIGHT & SHADOW EXHIBITION / 1 R / 2 / 3 Bottom edge center, stamped with handwritten additions: VAILSBURG CC / 1968 INTERNATIONAL / Pkg. # 23 Print # 1 Score 13 Upper right corner, stamp with handwritten additions, crossed out in pencil: Wilmington International / Exhibition of Photography / [grid] Package No. 114 / Print No. 1 / 9
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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