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Born 1955 Columbus, Georgia. Known for: Modernist-real figure, genre, and portrait painting.
Born in Columbus, Georgia, Bo Bartlett became an artist in the large scale, grand style of American narrative painting, an interest and talent he pursued from his teen-age years. His pieces, often... Read full biography
Born in Columbus, Georgia, Bo Bartlett became an artist in the large scale, grand style of American narrative painting, an interest and talent he pursued from his teen-age years. His pieces, often posing questions about everyday life, are inspired by many facets of his own life including his... Read full biography
Born in Columbus, Georgia, Bo Bartlett became an artist in the large scale, grand style of American narrative painting, an interest and talent he pursued from his teen-age years. His pieces, often posing questions about everyday life, are inspired by many facets of his own life including his religious faith, family, interest in baseball and football, Hitchcock films, and friendship with Andrew and Betsy Wyeth. He studied in Florence, Italy with Ben Long IV, a student of Italian Fresco painter... Read full biography
Born in Columbus, Georgia, Bo Bartlett became an artist in the large scale, grand style of American narrative painting, an interest and talent he pursued from his teen-age years. His pieces, often posing questions about everyday life, are inspired by many facets of his own life including his religious faith, family, interest in baseball and football, Hitchcock films, and friendship with Andrew and Betsy Wyeth. He studied in Florence, Italy with Ben Long IV, a student of Italian Fresco painter Pietro Annigoni, and with Ives Gammel in Boston and Aaron Shickler and Harvey Dinnerstein in New York. He married and had a family with his high-school sweetheart, Melonie, and often used family members as models for his paintings. In 1975, they moved... Read full biography
Born in Columbus, Georgia, Bo Bartlett became an artist in the large scale, grand style of American narrative painting, an interest and talent he pursued from his teen-age years. His pieces, often posing questions about everyday life, are inspired by many facets of his own life including his religious faith, family, interest in baseball and football, Hitchcock films, and friendship with Andrew and Betsy Wyeth. He studied in Florence, Italy with Ben Long IV, a student of Italian Fresco painter Pietro Annigoni, and with Ives Gammel in Boston and Aaron Shickler and Harvey Dinnerstein in New York. He married and had a family with his high-school sweetheart, Melonie, and often used family members as models for his paintings. In 1975, they moved to Philadelphia where he studied realist painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Ben Kamihira, Morris Blackbu... Read full biography
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Keywords (15)
Art Media
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Pew Fellowship in the Arts
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty