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Subject(s)

• Barton, Rick—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Drawing, American—20th century [Browse]
• Botanical illustration—20th century [Browse]
• Landscape drawing—20th century [Browse]
• Still-life in art—20th century [Browse]

Writer of supplementary textual content

• Adnan, Etel [Browse]

Host institution

• Pierpont Morgan Library [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Exhibition catalogs [Browse]

Summary note

""Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco legend," wrote author and artist Etel Adnan in a 1998 essay. Barton (American, 1928-1992) was born and raised in New York and settled in the Bay Area in the 1950s. Working primarily in pen or brush and ink, in a kaleidoscopic linear style, Barton ceaselessly recorded the world around him. His intricate sheets capture the intimate interiors and social spaces, lovers and friends, and architectural and botanical subjects that fascinated him. Bringing together more than sixty drawings, two accordion-folded sketchbooks, and printed books and portfolios, this catalogue presents the work of a significant and, until now, unheralded figure of the Beat era. Complementing the images are a deeply researched essay by Rachel Federman, curator of the accompanying exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, and an excerpt of Adnan's essay, the first and previously the only published account of Barton"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes

"Published to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, June 10-September 11, 2022"--Page 144.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9781636810386 ((board))
• 1636810381 ((board))

LCCN

2021046157

OCLC

1284921085

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