Charles W. Bartlett
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Charles William Bartlett (1 June 1860 – 16 April 1940) was an English painter and printmaker who settled in Hawaii.
Biography
Bartlett studied metallurgy and worked in that field for several years. At age 23, he enrolled in the
In 1889, he returned to England and married Emily Tate, but shortly thereafter, his wife and infant son died in childbirth. Bartlett then traveled to Europe, spending several productive years in the
Bartlett made several trips to Brittany and the Netherlands with the Dutch painter
In 1913, with financial backing from his wife's well-to-do family, the Bartletts traveled to
Anna Rice Cooke (1853–1934), who founded the Honolulu Museum of Art, became Bartlett's advocate and patron.[4] In 1928, Bartlett helped to found the Honolulu Printmakers along with local artists Alexander Samuel MacLeod, John Melville Kelly, and Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.[5] Charles Bartlett died in Hawaii at the age of 79 on 16 April 1940.
Collections and exhibitions
The Bradford Museums and Galleries (West Yorkshire, UK), the
The Honolulu Museum of Art holds a large collection of Charles Bartlett's paintings and prints, and has held eight solo exhibitions of his work:[6][7]
- Charles W. Bartlett: Watercolors, Oils and Prints, 30 May 1939 – 11 June 1939
- Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Sketches by Charles W. Bartlett (1860–1940), 5 February 1946 – 3 March 1946
- A Printmaker in Paradise: The Art and Life of Charles W. Bartlett, 15 November 2001 – 6 January 2002
- Charles Bartlett's Visions of India, 30 April 2009 – 31 January 2010
- Bartlett in Hawaiʻi, 7 May 2009 – 13 September 2009
- Bartlett in China, 16 July 2009 – 1 November 2009
- Bartlett in Europe, 17 September 2009 – 17 January 2010
- Bartlett in Java and Ceylon, 28 January 2010 – 6 June 2010
Notes
- ^ Miles, Richard, 2001, p. 14
- ^ a b Miles, Richard, 2001, p. 37
- ^ Miles, Richard, 2001, p. 40
- ^ Miles, Richard, 2001, p. 19
- ^ Miles, Richard, 2001, p. 22
- ^ Academy News, Honolulu Academy of Arts, September/October 2009, p. 3, 8,9
- ^ Academy News, Honolulu Academy of Arts, November/December 2009, p. 3
References
- Bartlett, Charles W., Catalogue of an Exhibition of Water Colors and Wood Engravings of India, Japan, and the Hawaiian Islands by Charles W. Bartlett, New York, Arthur H. Hahlo & Co., 1919.
- Congdon-Martin, Douglas, Aloha Spirit, Hawaiian Art and Popular Design, Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1998, pp. 176–177.
- Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Tokyo, The Asahi Shimbun, 2000, 152–2, 224.
- Forbes, David W., Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778–1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, pp. 206–233.
- Honolulu Academy of Arts, Charles W. Bartlett: Watercolors, Oils and Prints at the Honolulu Academy of Arts Exhibition May 30 – June 11, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1939.
- Konody, P. G., "The Artist: Charles William Bartlett", The Studio (London), 1906.
- Merritt, Helen and Nanako Yamada, Guide to Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, 1900–1975, Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 9780824812867.
- Miles, Richard and Jennifer Saville, A Printmaker in Paradise, The Art and Life of Charles W. Bartlett, with a catalogue raisonné of etchings and color woodblock prints, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2001.
- Morse, Marcia (ed.), Honolulu Printmakers, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2003, p. 14, ISBN 0-937426-58-X.
- Numata, Hideko, "Charles W. Bartlett and Modern Japanese Landscape Woodblock Prints", In Eyes Towards Asia: Ukiyoe Artists from Abroad, Yokohama Museum of Art, 1996, pp. 227–238.
- Schmidt, Rosalind Bartlett, Charles W. Bartlett: The Early Period unpublished manuscript on deposit at the Library of Congress and at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1961.
- Stephens, Amy Reigle The New Wave – Twentieth Century Japanese Prints from the Robert O. Muller Collection, Bamboo Publishing Ltd. London and Hotei - Japanese Prints, Leiden, 2005.
External links
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