Rick Bartow
Mad River Johnny and a Little Bird, 2015
drypoint on Magnani Annigani paper
29 x 21
BAR3143
Copyright R.E. Bartow Trusts
Published By The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, with master printer Mika Aono. 'Mad River Johnny' was John Bartow: Rick's paternal grandfather whos lineage was...
Published By The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, with master printer Mika Aono.
"Mad River Johnny" was John Bartow: Rick's paternal grandfather whos lineage was Mad River Band of the Wiyot Indians. Around 1911 John Bartow walked more then 300 miles from his McKinleyville, CA home to Cascade Head, Oregon, and eventually settled/homesteaded a plot of land in South Beach, OR along Idaho Point Road. Rick's father, Richard Sr. died when Rick was only 5 years old. Rick's Uncle Bob (his father's twin brother) was a great mentor for Rick who taught him family history, Native traditions, and the natural cycles of the seasons, water and wildlife on the Oregon coast.
Programming for the 2015 "Things You Know But Cannot Explain" retrospective exhibition included a commission of new drypoint prints and etchings created by Rick Bartow with master printer Mika Aono at the University of Oregon's art department. During the Spring of 2015 Rick scratched and editioned three drypoints: "Mad River Johnny and a Little Bird" (edition of 16), "Mad River Johnny with Antler" (edition of 15) and "Mad River Johnny with a Crow" (edition of 16). Individual prints were given to donors, artwork lenders and hosts of the traveling exhibit.
"Mad River Johnny" was John Bartow: Rick's paternal grandfather whos lineage was Mad River Band of the Wiyot Indians. Around 1911 John Bartow walked more then 300 miles from his McKinleyville, CA home to Cascade Head, Oregon, and eventually settled/homesteaded a plot of land in South Beach, OR along Idaho Point Road. Rick's father, Richard Sr. died when Rick was only 5 years old. Rick's Uncle Bob (his father's twin brother) was a great mentor for Rick who taught him family history, Native traditions, and the natural cycles of the seasons, water and wildlife on the Oregon coast.
Programming for the 2015 "Things You Know But Cannot Explain" retrospective exhibition included a commission of new drypoint prints and etchings created by Rick Bartow with master printer Mika Aono at the University of Oregon's art department. During the Spring of 2015 Rick scratched and editioned three drypoints: "Mad River Johnny and a Little Bird" (edition of 16), "Mad River Johnny with Antler" (edition of 15) and "Mad River Johnny with a Crow" (edition of 16). Individual prints were given to donors, artwork lenders and hosts of the traveling exhibit.