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.70.2021
Signature Recto, lower right below image, in white pencil: Ed Willis Barnett APSA ARPS
Inscription Recto, lower left on mount, in white pencil: Modern Art
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Center, stamped in black ink with handwritten additions: Ed Willis Barnett APSA ARPS / [illegible] / Birmingham Alabama
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
![This black and white photograph represents two nuns wearing dark-colored habits standing in front of a painting and a sculpture in a white gallery space [the Guggenheim]. The painting is an abstract work with dark colors on a light canvas and the sculpture is a human figure at life scale.](https://media.artsbma.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/11091611/AFI702021_01_p01_w.jpg "AFI702021_01_p01_w | Birmingham Museum of Art")
