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Bo Bartlett, “A Summer Afternoon.”

Cinematic in scope and grounded in the figurative tradition, Bo Bartlett’s paintings are a testament to living close to nature, to being attuned to the present, and to the awareness of the connectedness of all things. “I look and dream,” he says. “Try to stay awake in the moment. Try to find a distilled moment to represent how it feels to be alive in this world. It is about finding something equivalent to a mise-en-scène, a single image that encapsulates and describes the whole idea.” Since 1999, Bartlett has made his summer home and studio on remote Wheaton Island, twenty-three miles off the coast of Port Clyde, Maine, where his wife, artist Betsy Eby, and family and friends are frequent models for his paintings.

Highly regarded as a painter of contemporary realism, Bartlett received his Certificate of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a Certificate of Filmmaking from New York University. In 2023, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art and an honorary Certificate from the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts. His work is in notable public and private collections throughout the U.S. He lives and works in Columbus, Georgia, and Wheaton Island.

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