Rick Bartow
1/2 Blind, 2013-2015
drypoint on Mitsumata paper
image 29 x 20 in
paper 29 x 20 in
paper 29 x 20 in
Edition of 12 plus 2 artist's proofs, 2 printer's proofs and 1 edition varied
BAR3225
Copyright R.E. Bartow Trusts
$ 2,000.00
Bartow scratched the plate sometime between 2013 to 2015, and Seiichi Hiroshima printed the posthumous edition in 2018. Seiichi Hiroshima writes about this work: ''1/2 Blind' is the last work...
Bartow scratched the plate sometime between 2013 to 2015, and Seiichi Hiroshima printed the posthumous edition in 2018.
Seiichi Hiroshima writes about this work: "'1/2 Blind' is the last work of his that I printed. A year after his death, I had to close our South Beach workshop. When I was closing my workshop, I found this plexiglass plate of '1/2 Blind' hiding beside our working table among a bunch of plexiglass plates used for monotype. It was so nostalgic that I felt like I was able to see Rick for the first time in a while.
The following year, in 2018, I converted my friend Erin's garage into a workshop and printed this work there. I remember on the fourth day after I started printing, I couldn't bear to look at his sad face on the plate, so I stopped printing halfway through and only made an edition of 12."
On swallows: Swallows inspired by "Crows," c. 1625-50 by an anonymous Japanese artist in the Seattle Art Museum collection. Also, John Bevan Ford, Maori artist and friend, on his final visit to see Rick, was bowled over by all of the swallows at his place, and made lots of drawings of them. The swallows used to live in the old farm at his Grandpa's place before it was knocked down. The property was recently put up for sale by Rick's cousins.
Seiichi Hiroshima writes about this work: "'1/2 Blind' is the last work of his that I printed. A year after his death, I had to close our South Beach workshop. When I was closing my workshop, I found this plexiglass plate of '1/2 Blind' hiding beside our working table among a bunch of plexiglass plates used for monotype. It was so nostalgic that I felt like I was able to see Rick for the first time in a while.
The following year, in 2018, I converted my friend Erin's garage into a workshop and printed this work there. I remember on the fourth day after I started printing, I couldn't bear to look at his sad face on the plate, so I stopped printing halfway through and only made an edition of 12."
On swallows: Swallows inspired by "Crows," c. 1625-50 by an anonymous Japanese artist in the Seattle Art Museum collection. Also, John Bevan Ford, Maori artist and friend, on his final visit to see Rick, was bowled over by all of the swallows at his place, and made lots of drawings of them. The swallows used to live in the old farm at his Grandpa's place before it was knocked down. The property was recently put up for sale by Rick's cousins.