Richard Wilt (American 1915-1981)
'Head if a Barbarian'
Oil on canvas
Signed u/r and on frame
Image painted over two canvas panels 30in. x 20in. each (76cm. x 51cm each)
Framed: 30 1/2in. x 40in (77cm. x 102cm)

A depiction of a stone carved bust of an ancient, eyes cast upward from an agonized expression.

Note: After a carved marble statue of a Barbarian in the Collection of the British Museum, excavated from the Palace of Trajan..

Richard Wilt was a pilot of B-25 Bombers in the North African Theater during WWII.
Wilt taught at the University of Michigan and at the Somerset Summer Art School, Oxbow Summer School of Art, Wayne State University, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Wilt is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and The Art Inaptitude of Chicago.
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