1930’s Original Modern Art “Toll Booth” by THOMAS BARRETT Pencil Signed Serigraph Screen Print — Artists Proof —

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1930’s Limited Edition “Toll Booth” Artist Proof Serigraph Silk Screen print by Thomas Weeks Barrett This is a limited edition, modern art print/serigraph, created by listed artist Thomas Weeks Barrett in the 1930s or early 1940s. It is hand signed, titled and numbered as “Artist Proof” which is the artist proof created before the numbered editions are created, and more valuable. Thomas Barrett is best known for industrial art. He was a painter and a printer. In 1936, Mr. Barrett was responsible for bringing a group of artists together to form the Dutchess County Art Association in Poughkeepsie, NY. The Barrett Art Center is located there today. Size: 30 x 22" Frame: 39” x 31” About Thomas Weeks Barrett - 1902 to 1947 Thomas Weeks Barrett, Jr. born in Poughkeepsie, New York, on September 12, 1902. As a Hudson Valley “American Scene” painter, Barrett fashioned a modern iteration of the region’s landscapes first immortalized a century earlier by the founders of the nation’s first major art movement, the Hudson River School. Barrett turned his artistic attention to the urban landscapes of cities along the Hudson as symbols of a resilient, new, modern American character. His works in the 1930s and early 1940s embrace regionalism, social realism, and abstraction.