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Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton

Institution
Morgan Library
Grant Cycle
Fall 2019
Amount
$60,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support

Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton is the first exhibition to highlight the life and work of the artist Rick Barton, an active member of San Francisco’s bohemian art scene in the 1950s and 60s. Containing numerous drawings, print portfolios, and accordion style sketchbooks, the exhibition will unfold over across four thematic groupings, inspired by the artist’s personal preoccupations. Writing a Chrysanthemum will contain self-portraits and drawings of places important to Barton’s artistic career; drawings that captures the personal spaces Barton inhabited in the late 1950s and early 1960s; works that delve into Barton’s affinity for religion and its rituals; and a selection of Barton’s carefully observed drawings of fish, plants, flowers, birds, and other creatures.

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Warhol wins the first of many industry awards as a commercial designer. Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Bergdorf Goodman, Tiffany & Co., and Columbia Records are among many of his prestigious clients.

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