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Idealized Landscape
Aquatic Scene
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Rocky Coast (painting courtesy of Mr. Howard Tokosh)
Franklin Barrett (1906 – 2000)
08 Sunday Aug 2010
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AMERICAN GALLERY - 20th Century
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i like your painting of the idealized landscape. I am a Barrett of Texas. Your name drew me to your work. i was not disappointed. thanks for letting me see your beautiful painting, i so enjoyed it this Sunday morning. Patricia (Barrett) Mann
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I believe this may be a painting by my great grandfather Franklin Barrett from Philadelphia who also was well known for his illustrations of fish and owned an aquarium in Philadelphia. He passed away in 1958. The style of the painting looks like his and the signature matches other paintings I have in my home. Is there anyone who know the history of this painting?
Thank you.
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I don’t know the details of this painting. However, my wife Dorothy was Franklin Barrett’s Granddaughter. Her Mother was Helen Ida Barrett who was Franklin’s daughter. We have one of his original still life paintings in our home and I can send you a picture if you are interested,. We live in Bucks Co, PA.
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HI! Of course, Dorothy and Willard Moore. I am Harry & Jean Class’ daughter, Cathy, Franklin’s great granddaughter! We are related! Do you know how many pictures Franklin painted? We have a few as well and my favorite is one very similar to the last one shown above. I would love to see a picture of the one you have. How are you doing Willard?
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he is my great grand father also and have many works by him as well as pictures .
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Hi Russ. Would you be willing to share your paintings on this website? Can you email me a jpeg files of each painting, I can send them into the wesbite? I’d love to see any pictures. I only have one photo of him, from a newspaper article…at age 77 he punched some boys that were harassing an 18 yo girl in his neighborhood!
Thank you!
Linda
LHerdman@hotmail.com
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Hi Cathy:
It is nice to hear from you. I remember some of the paintings and I think Norman Lock, Jr (Skip) has one or two paintings, but I don’t what they are. If we can communicate via email, then I can send a picture of the one I have. It is a still life of a beautiful pink rose with the same signature that shows up on the other paintings. Unfortunately, my wife Dorothy died about 11 years ago and I am now re-married for almost 9 years to Norma.
How is your Mom? Last time I remembered she had an apartment in Langhorne after your Father died.. My email address is goldenretrieverlover@comcast.net
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I have a Franklin Barrett painting dated 1943. It is a painting of a storm at sea. It is called “Rocky Coast”. It has a price of $500 on it and it was given to my father-in-law Joseph L. Fox, an attorney, who represented FB in a case which had to do with one of his paintings deemed to be pornographic. He took the painting in lieu of a fee.
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Hi Howard! Would you be willing to share a picture of your painting? i am wondering if it is similar to one my sister has. I think it is quite interesting that my great grandfather had a case against him for pornography! i think it may have been one of the paintings we have a a large nude reclining. It is not pornographic by today’s standards but I’m sure was thought to be back then. Cathy
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Cathy,
I just photograped the painting. If you give me an email address I will send it as an attachment. I would also be willing to pos it on this website, but don’t know how to do it
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Hi Howard. My email is classzewski@verizon.net. Thanks so much, I look forward to seeing the picture.
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I sent the photos (4) twice and it failed. I have now sent them one at a time. I hope you got them.
Howard
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Thank you Howard, I replied to your email.
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I have a painting signed F. Barrett. 1941. Would Mr. Franklin Barrett have signed his work as F. Barrett. It is also a stormy sea painting.
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A. Pharr – can you send me a jpeg of your painting and also a closeup of the signature and any other markings? I can share this with Cathy L. who has access to several of the paintings maybe we can figure out if yours is from our Franklin Barrett. How did you acquire your painting?
Thanks
Linda
LHerdman@hotmail.com.
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I had some restoration work done on my Frankin Barrett, Rocky Coast a few years ago. Mostly cleaning. It looks nicer now than when I posted the picture above.
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