Biography from Tree's Place Gallery:
| William Bartlett, born in Dover, Massachusetts in 1960, knew from an
early age that he would be an artist. His earliest training was
at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Saturday classes with teacher Ralph
Rosenthal.
At the age of seventeen, Bartlett became a member of the Copley Society
of Boston. Soon after, he attended the Museum of Fine Arts
School. He went to Monhegan Island, Maine and studied with Don
Stone NA, AWS, and spent four years studying with Joseph L.C. Santoro
ANA, AWS.
Impassioned to continue his education as a traditional realist,
Bartlett spent five years at the studio of Paul Ingbretson, a "Boston
School” master who teaches the methods of the 19th-century Paris
ateliers. Training started with the copying of plaster casts as
well as drawing the figure from life. Students learn paint
handling and composition by doing still-lifes. When deemed ready,
students moved on to portraiture, and finally, the figure.
Bartlett began teaching evening classes at Ingbretson Studios. He
continues to teach whenever possible, as a way to further strengthen
his traditional artistic belief grounded in sound fundamentals.
Throughout Bartlett's life, sculptor Walker Hancock and lithographer
Stow Wengenwroth have been constant inspirations. After many
visits to Hancock’s studio, Bartlett grew to admire the artist's
dedication, hard work, and sense of form and beauty. Anders Zorn,
Johannes Vermeer and Ilya Repin, among many others, are strong visual
influences.
Being faithful to visual order, sound craftsmanship and exploration are
a few of the elements that give Bartlett ’s work a timeless visual
integrity. His works hang in many private and corporate collections.
Working mainly in oils, his works include portraits, still-lifes, landscapes and complex studio pieces. |
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