“Draughtsmanship: Selected Drawings from the Allan Stone Collection” and Bo Bartlett “Dreamland”
Allan Stone Projects
[Image: William Beckman "Study for Diana and Dierdre" (1979) charcoal on paper, 61 1/2 x 49 in.]
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Allan Stone Projects presents two exhibitions, Draughtsmanship: Selected Drawings from the Allan Stone Collection and Bo Bartlett: Dreamland. Draughtsmanship features a range of drawings and mixed media works on paper from the 19th to the late 20th centuries and Bo Bartlett highlights four significant paintings from 1995 to 2001.
Draughtsmanship is a unique opportunity to view artist’s drawings, studies and sketches from various points in their careers and in creative processes. These works illuminate the intimate nature of the drawing medium, offering perspective into the artist’s development. Mark-making, decisions in composition and gesture elucidate each individual artist’s methods. Artists included in the exhibitiion are David Beck, William Beckman, Oscar Bluemner, Frederick Arthur Bridgman, Willem de Kooning, RIchard Estes, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Susan Hauptman, Dean Howell, Gaston Lachaise, Robert S. Neuman, Dalia Ramanauskas, Steven Jay Redman, Wayne Thiebaud, Domenick Turturro and Jack Whitten.
Bo Bartlett: Dreamland features the artist’s exploration of mythical themes in his large scale realist paintings. Bartlett’s imagery fuses art historical, biblical and literary narratives in contemporary contexts. His multilayered references result in dreamlike paintings imbued with mysterious or surrealist undertones. Aligned with the great realist painters before him like Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell and Andrew Wyeth, Bartlett continues the American painter’s tradition of exalting the commonplace with personal significance.
Bo Bartlett was born in Columbus, Georgia, in 1955, and after studying in Florence, Italy, went on to receive a Certificate of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA in 1981. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in the US and abroad, at such museums as the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, the Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, PA, among others. Bartlett has received awards including the PEW Fellowship in the Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art Award, the Museum Merit Award from Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA, and the Charles Toppan Prize from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. His work is in the public collections of the Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO and the Seattle Art Museum, WA, among others. In January 2018, Columbus State University opened the Bo Bartlett Center which serves as an exhibition space and art facility dedicated to American realism. Bartlett lives and works in Columbus, GA and lives seasonally in Maine.
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Schedule
from March 01, 2018 to April 21, 2018