By the mid-1970s, Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941, Long Beach, CA, d. 2022, New York) had emerged as a leading American artist of her time—particularly following the landmark presentation at Paula Cooper Gallery of Rhapsody (1976), Bartlett’s magnum opus, now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bartlett’s first survey exhibition was held in 1985 at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Philadelphia, among others. In 2006, the Addison Gallery of American Art surveyed Bartlett’s early enameled steel plate paintings in the period from 1968–76. In 2013-14, Klaus Ottmann curated her second traveling survey, which visited the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Parrish Art Museum, New York. In 2014, the Cleveland Museum of Art united her three monumental plate pieces in the exhibition “Epic Systems.” Bartlett’s works can be found in numerous public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Naoshima Museum, Japan; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Tate Gallery, UK; and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.
Jennifer Bartlett
Positive Negative Series #2, 1971
enamel over silkscreen grid on baked enamel, steel plates
overall: 12 x 24 in. (30.5 x 61 cm)
2 steel plates, each: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Positive Negative Series #3, 1971
enamel over silkscreen grid on baked enamel, steel plates
overall: 12 x 24 in. (30.5 x 61 cm)
2 steel plates, each: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
One Line (Connecting any Two of Nine Points), 1972
Testors enamel, silkscreen, on 9 baked enamel steel plates
each panel: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
overall: 38 x 38 in. (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Beaver: Man Carrying Thing, 1989
painting: oil on canvas, steel grids and stacked
steel ring: welded and rolled steel
painting: 107 7/8 x 106 7/8 x 1 1/2 in. (274 x 271.5 x 3.8 cm)
steel rings: 7 x 26 x 26 in. (17.8 x 66 x 66 cm)
steel grid (1): 5/8 x 9 x 9 in. (1.6 x 22.9 x 22.9 cm)
steel grid (2): 5/8 x 14 x 14 in. (1.6 x 35.6 x 35.6 cm)
steel grid (3): 5/8 x 9 x 17 in. (1.6 x 22.9 x 43.2 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Vertical Black and White Dots, 1973
enamel over silkscreen grid on baked enamel, 2 steel plates
overall: 25 x 12 in. (63.5 x 30.5 cm)
each: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Rose, 2010-2011
oil on canvas
diptych, each panel: 72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm)
overall: 72 x 144 in. (182.9 x 365.8 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Color Counting, 1970
enamel over silkscreen grid on baked enamel on steel plate
12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Hinoki Cypress, 2009-2010
oil on canvas
overall: 36 x 72 in. (91.4 x 182.9 cm)
each: 36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
8 Plate, 9 Plate Piece, 1974
silkscreen and baked enamel on eight steel plates
each: 12 x 12 in (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
overall: 40 x 40 in. (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Amagansett Diptych #3, 2007-2008
oil on canvas
2 panels each: 84 x 84 in. (213.4 x 213.4 cm)
overall: 84 x 168 in. (213.4 x 426.7 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Untitled (diagonals), circa 1971-1973
enamel over silkscreen grid on baked enamel, 2 steel plates
overall: 25 x 12 in. (63.5 x 30.5 cm)
each: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Path, 2011
oil on canvas
overall: 60 x 120 in. (152.4 x 304.8 cm)
each: 60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
1" - 12" Dotted, Ruled, Freehand Lines, 1975
enamel over silkscreen grid on baked enamel on steel plates
each: 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
overall: 25 x 12 in. (63.5 x 30.5 cm)
Jennifer Bartlett
Six A.M., 1991-92
oil on canvas
84 x 84 in. (213.4 x 213.4 cm)
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