Highballing

Ed Willis Barnett

1958

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This abstract welded bronze sculpture is made of a series of bronze rods emerging from a central, flat trapezoid of bronze with a small, c-shaped notch removed. Two bronze rods that appear to have hands at the ends emerge from either side of the central shape, alongside additional protruding rods, most of which are bent and welded to other rods. One rod protrudes upward at an angle and at the end is a metal oval divided in half by a smaller rod and then segmented by three still-smaller rods. At the bottom of the trapezoid seven rods protrude and create a base for the sculpture, attached to small, circular pieces of metal.
This image is created with black ink on white paper. It shows a board house with a boarded up chimney and a partially boarded up window, as well as a lurching dogleg off of the back. In the side yard of the house—which is the lower portion of the image—there are two barren trees and a group of three figures playing with a possum. Behind the group of figures is a fenced garden, and behind the fenced garden is a distant row of homes. There are trees behind the homes.
Carnival, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, lithograph
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Childe Hassam, etching, engraving