Jennifer Losch Bartlett is an American artist who was born in Long Beach, California in 1941. She received a BA from Mills College in Oakland, California in 1963. While there, she met mixed-media sculptor Elizabeth Murray. Bartlett received a BFA in 1963 and an MFA in 1965 from the Yale School of Art and Architecture at a time when minimalism was pervasive. Bartlett lives and works in New York City. Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints of mundane objects, especially houses, which are treated both realistically and as abstractions. In 1981, she created a two-hundred foot mural for the Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia. The Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Massachusetts), the Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio), The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, the Currier Museum of Art (Manchester, New Hampshire), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), the Maier Museum of Art (Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia), the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas), the Museum of Modern Art (New York City), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), the Tate Gallery (London), the Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery (Winston-Salem, North Carolina), the Walker Art Center (Minnesota) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), are among the public collections holding works by Jennifer Bartlett.
References
- Eisenberg, Deborah, Air, 24 Hours, Jennifer Bartlett, New York, H.N. Abrams, 1994.
- Goldwater, Marge, Jennifer Bartlett, New York, Abbeville Press, 1985.
- Katz, Vincent, Bartlett Shows Her Colors, Art in America, January 2007, 106-111.
- Richardson, Brenda, Jennifer Bartlett, Early Plate Work, Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, New Haven, distributed by Yale University Press, 2006.
- Scott, Sue A., Jennifer Bartlett, A Print Retrospective, Orlando, Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, 1993.
- Van der Marck, Jan, Reconnecting, Recent Work by Jennifer Bartlett, Detroit, Founders Society Detroit Institute of Arts, 1987.
