David Barnett Gallery

David Barnett Gallery Free admission to the public. We are Wisconsin's oldest, largest, and most diverse fine art gallery
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The David Barnett gallery specializes in European and American masters, regional and nationally recognized artists and emerging artists. Also represented are artworks from Latin America and Asia, as well as Ethnographic art from Africa, Indonesia, and Oceania. The gallery has a national reputation for its extensive collection of Picasso ceramics and Milton Avery oil paintings.

05/29/2026

Check out this clip from our May podcast! Anna and David talk about the revolutionary lithographic techniques that Henri Toulouse Lautrec pioneered in the late 1800's. You can see this original lithographic poster in our current show Power of The Poster today!

Kees Van DongenThe Green Kimono -La Garconne Series- Le Kimono Vert, 1925Color pochoir on arches paper No. 738/750Kees v...
05/29/2026

Kees Van Dongen
The Green Kimono -La Garconne Series- Le Kimono Vert, 1925
Color pochoir on arches paper No. 738/750

Kees van Dongen was a Dutch-French artist known for his vibrant paintings and prints of almond-eyed women and bourgeois leisure scenes. Some of the painter’s most famous works depict fashionable celebrities, including the French actress Brigitte Bardot. Van Dongen’s use of color and expressive line became integral to his style. In 1926, the artist was inducted into the French Legion of Honor, and, in 1927, awarded the Order of the Crown of Belgium.

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Congratulations to the artists who were selected to be included in our Pride Month Art Pop-Up! A big thank you to all of...
05/29/2026

Congratulations to the artists who were selected to be included in our Pride Month Art Pop-Up! A big thank you to all of the amazing artists who submitted to the call! We didn't have a single weak piece of art and that made the selection especially grueling.
Come see these amazing local artists talk about their work and practice on June 18th at the gallery! Visit the art pop-up starting June 2nd and vote for your favorite piece!

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Our Pride Month Art Pop-Up is almost here! Visit the gallery in June to see amazing local artists creating work that exp...
05/27/2026

Our Pride Month Art Pop-Up is almost here! Visit the gallery in June to see amazing local artists creating work that explores their unique identities and how they bloom into their Pride.
Voting starts on June 2nd! You can only vot IN-PERSON! So, come to the gallery, experience the art, and vote for your favorite works to get a yearlong consignment agreement at Wisconsin's oldest, largest, and most diverse art gallery.

05/27/2026

Francesco Spicuzza
Self Portrait, 1948
Oil on masonite

Our Gallery Wall Wednesday is all about this self portrait by the great Milwaukee based artist Francesco Spicuzza!

Sylvia SpicuzzaStudent Reading, c. 1930'sInk on paperBorn in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Fra...
05/27/2026

Sylvia Spicuzza
Student Reading, c. 1930's
Ink on paper

Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. She received her teaching certification at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is a rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings, watercolors and prints from the 1920's to the 1990's. Her style ranges from early figurative drawings to regionalism, art deco, lyrical abstractions of every conceivable subject (both real and imagined), as well as figurative paintings that reflect the work of Picasso and Max Ernst in the 1930's and 1940's. Biomorphic and organic modernist images are presented with Sylvia Spicuzza's own unique sense of style, humor and fantasy.

Joan MirΓ³From Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el Jardin de Miro, 1975, (VII/XV)Original black and white lithogr...
05/26/2026

Joan MirΓ³
From Maravillas con Variaciones Acrosticas en el Jardin de Miro, 1975, (VII/XV)
Original black and white lithograph, signed in pencil

Joan MirΓ³ (1893-1983) was a painter, sculptor and ceramist from Spain. Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism but with a personal style, sometimes also veering into Fauvism and Expressionism. He was notable for his interest in the unconscious or the subconscious mind, reflected in his re-creation of the childlike. His difficult-to-classify works also had a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, MirΓ³ expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and declared an "assassination of painting" in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.

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05/22/2026

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05/22/2026

Here is another clip from our latest podcast! This months theme is all about our current show Power of the Poster! Here, Anna and David take a look at a rare 1970's Snoopy film poster.

Our New Blog Post is up now! Visit our website to read the whole exploration of French poster art at the turn of the 19t...
05/21/2026

Our New Blog Post is up now! Visit our website to read the whole exploration of French poster art at the turn of the 19th century!

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1024 E State St
Milwaukee, WI
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Tuesday 11am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 11am - 5:30pm
Thursday 11am - 5:30pm
Friday 11am - 5:30pm
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