About Don Bachardy

Name variants

Don Bacardy, Don Barchardy
  • Biography

    Don Bachardy was born in Los Angeles on May 18, 1934.  Bachardy studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles and Slade School in London.  For the past 50 years, he has lived in Santa Monica, California in the home that he shared with his life partner, the writer Christopher Isherwood.

    Exhibited:
    Redfern Gallery (London), 1961 (solo)
    Huntington Library, 2004.

    Works held:
    Metropolitan Museum
    DeYoung Museum
    University of Texas
    Huntington Library (San Marino, CA)
    UCLA
    Fogg Museum (Harvard)
    Princeton University
    Smithsonian Institute
    National Portrait Gallery (London)
    California State Capitol (Jerry Brown)

    Source: Edan Hughes, author of the book "Artists in California, 1786-1940"


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