Paul Bartlett (July 8, 1881 – April 3, 1965) was an American landscape painter, art teacher, and poet.
A descendant of New Hampshire Founding Father Josiah Bartlett, he was born and grew up in Taunton, Massachusetts.[1] He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, where he was a member of the Signet Society.[2] He was a writer and cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon, and its president, 1901–02.[3] He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in France.[1] Prior to World War I, he spent a year in St. Petersburg, Russia, as a vice-consul at the United States consulate.[1][4]
Bartlett returned to Chicago, where he worked as an illustrator.[5] He married Lina H. Owlsey, and the couple moved to New York City in 1921,[6] and divorced about 1930. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia during the 1920s and 1930s.[7] PAFA awarded him its 1932 Temple Gold Medal for The Sand Barge.[7][8]
He moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1944, and subsequently taught at the Mint Museum of Art, the Burton Institute, Guilford College, and other schools.[1] He married the English painter Kathleen Mary Booker Bain (1903–1993) in 1945, and they moved to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1959.[1]
He published two books of poetry: Moods and Memories in 1957, and And What of Spring? in 1962.[1]
The Mint Museum organized a one-man show of his paintings: Paul Bartlett Retrospective Exhibition, September 2 – October 27, 1959.[9] After his death, the museum hosted a memorial exhibition.[1] One of his landscapes is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris.[10][11]
Bartlett died at Greensboro in 1965.[1] His widow donated his papers to the Smithsonian Institution.[12]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g h Paul Bartlett Memorial Exhibition,(PDF), exhibition catalogue, (Mint Museum of Art, 1965).
- ^ Third Catalogue of the Signet Society (Merrymount Press, 1903), p. 82.
- ^ The Harvard Lampoon, volumes 40 & 41, from New York Public Library.
- ^ Kenneth J. Blume, Historical Dictionary of U.S. Diplomacy from the Civil War to World War I (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), p. 460.
- ^ Harvard Alumni Directory (Harvard Alumni Association, 1919), p. 47.
- ^ Chicago Social Register 1922 (The Social Register Association, November 1921), p. 12.
- ^ a b Peter Hastings Falk, ed., The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Volume III, 1914-1968 (Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1989), p. 80.
- ^ The Sand Barge by Paul Bartlett, from Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ Exhibitions Collection Catalogues, (PDF) from Mint Museum.
- ^ "Le Vallée de la Bidassoa," from SIRIS.
- ^ "Le Vallée de la Bidassoa," from Musée du Louvre.
- ^ Paul Bartlett papers, 1930-1973, from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.