Rick Bartow
CS Indian, 2014
pastel, tempera, graphite on paper
Image 44.5 x 44.5 in
Framed 49 x 49 x 1.5 in
Framed 49 x 49 x 1.5 in
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Framed 49 x 49' white-washed maple, UV3 Plexiglas. Notes on this work: Rick Bartow wrote a “1” on the right margin of this work, it is first of a series...
Framed 49 x 49" white-washed maple, UV3 Plexiglas.
Notes on this work: Rick Bartow wrote a “1” on the right margin of this work, it is first of a series of approximately 7 works of the same size paper. Bartow wrote "CS" twice at the top of this drawing. It is both a self portrait and references an 1880's photo of a Wiyot man that Rick had seen wearing a hat with a racoon tail, and Bartow told me "CS" stands for "Coon Skin." This work was included in the traveling exhibition “Things You Know But Cannot Explain," which was Conceived and organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, in cooperation with Froelick Gallery, this retrospective exhibition represented nearly forty years of work and traveled to 11 institutions over a 5 year period. The 7th work from this series of drawings is "Self in Monet's Hat" which is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY.
Notes on this work: Rick Bartow wrote a “1” on the right margin of this work, it is first of a series of approximately 7 works of the same size paper. Bartow wrote "CS" twice at the top of this drawing. It is both a self portrait and references an 1880's photo of a Wiyot man that Rick had seen wearing a hat with a racoon tail, and Bartow told me "CS" stands for "Coon Skin." This work was included in the traveling exhibition “Things You Know But Cannot Explain," which was Conceived and organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, in cooperation with Froelick Gallery, this retrospective exhibition represented nearly forty years of work and traveled to 11 institutions over a 5 year period. The 7th work from this series of drawings is "Self in Monet's Hat" which is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY.
Exhibitions
2024 Rick Bartow: Looking for the Medicine, Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR.2023 Rick Bartow: What The Crow Knows, Froelick Gallery, Portland OR
2015-2019. “Things You Know But Cannot Explain,” Organized by Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, retrospective and monograph. Tour Locations:
2019 High Desert Museum, Bend, OR,
2018-2019 Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA.
2018 Schingoethe Center of Aurora University, Aurora, IL.
2017 Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID.
Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ.
Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA.
2016 IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND.
Gilcrease Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK.
2015 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR.
