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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]
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