Bo bartlett

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American realist with modernist vision, the painter Bo Bartlett looks into the heart of American identity in his works, studying its land and its people.

Bo Bartlett is an American Realist painter with a modernist vision. His paintings are within the tradition of American Realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America's land and people to describe the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

Bo Bartlett is an American Realist painter with a modernist vision. His paintings are within the tradition of American Realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America's land and people to describe the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

American artist Bo Bartlett’s paintings reveal a luminous world that is at once familiar and uncanny. Here, we glimpse carnivals, a lone figure riding a bicycle beside the shore, a woman in a wedding dress standing in a pink-wallpapered room, a zeppelin floating through the sky. Bartlett’s scenes have the aura of daily life, but these visions aren’t simply realist snapshots of the American experience. Instead, they possess the delicate impermanence of memories and dreams, half-remembered…

Bo Bartlett’s paintings were inspired by Wyeth and Rockwell—and have motivated painters like Amy Sherald—but he’s never impressed critics.

Mural in the IBM Analytics building in DC

Painting by Bo Bartlett Love is a fountain, Two women in love are a Drop of fresh water.