Morton Bartlett @ Collection de l’Art Brut

MORTON BARTLETT

November 23, 2012 > April 14, 2013

Vernissage

November 22, 2012, 6:30pm

with Claudia Dichter and Marion Harris in attendance

Exhibition Curator
Claudia Dichter

COLLECTION DE L’ART BRUT LAUSANNE

artbrut.ch

The Collection de l’Art Brut proudly presents, jointly with the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart (Contemporary Art Museum), Berlin, a first European solo show devoted to the American Art Brut creator Morton Bartlett (1909-1992). Initially featured in Berlin, the show now travels to Lausanne.

In 1996, the New York gallery owner Marion Harris donated forty-two Morton Bartlett works to the Collection de l’Art Brut. This significant body of lead pencil drawings also includes various plaster sculptures depicting children–such as two little girls—as well as studies of ears and feet, a dental mold, faces bearing a variety of expressions, painstakingly detailed sets of clothing and black-and-white photographs printed from the original negatives. Morton Bartlett produced all of these pieces over a period of twenty-seven years, from 1936 to 1963. In fact, Bartlett lent substance to a reconstituted family rooted in childhood. His entire oeuvre, which was discovered in his home after his death at eighty-three, was conceived for personal ends, so that none of it ever went on public display during his lifetime. The Collection de l’Art Brut holds the major share of his production, but the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco both possess a number of his photographs… (continue reading)

Untitled, between 1936 and 1965

Untitled, between 1936 and 1965

other images on the net:

Untitled, Seated Girl with Straw Hat, 1950-60 c.

: 10000lives.org

Girl in a yellow sunsuit, 1955

:  parisphoto.com

Untitled, 1950s

: duchessofcorbin.blogspot.com

Two nude dolls

: arttattler.com