This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Studied: Art Students League, with George Bridgman, Frank Dumond, William von Schlegell, Tschacbasov.
Collections: Brooklyn Museum; New York Public Library; Newark Public Library; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, Haifa, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Butler Museum of American Art; Yale University Gallery.
Exhibitions (one-man): Mack Gallery, Philadelphia (1957); Fantasy Gallery, Washington (1958, 1960); Hudson Guild, New York (1959).
Sources:
The Condon Kay Collection
Information provided by Ethel P. Ross |
Biography from Butler Institute of American Art:
| John Murray Barton Painter, Printmaker
Born New York, NY Febray 8, 1921; studied Art Students League; Nahum Tschacbasov School of Art.
Work is in Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art in Haifa Israel, and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Commissions include Murals at the New York Board of Education and a History of Money mural at South Carolina State Bank.
One-man shows have been at Fantasy Gallery in Washington, DC and Hudson Gallery in New York..
He has been a lecturer on creative expression at universities throughout the East Coast.
John Murray Barton (artist resume)
Born New York City February 8, 1921
Holdings :
Philadelphia Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Public
Library; Haifa Museum of Modern Art, Israel; Brooklyn Museum; Fort
Worth Art Center; Oakland Museum; Yale University.
Commissions :
Ceramic mural for a New York City Elementary School in Greenwich Village
Polyclinic Hospital New York
Mural in oil and sand for Riverdale Junior High School
South Carolina State Bank, Columbia
Wood cut edition entitled "Benny at Brussels" for Westinghouse in
conjunction with sending Benny Goodman to the Brussel's World's Fair
Gilbert Hotel Falslburgh New York
Wood cut portraits of famous doctors and scientists for Wallace Laboratories |
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