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He Might’ve Been a Minister or a Juggler
The University of Mississippi Department of Art invites the public to its spring visiting artist lecture, hosting internationally acclaimed artist and American realist painter Bo Bartlett. The lecture is Thursday, April 25, at 3 p.m. at the Jackson Events center in Oxford, with a reception afterward.
In high school, Bo Bartlett’s list of career choices, in order, was short: a Baptist minister, circus juggler, and artist. He hitched his star to the last. He would be an artist. After studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he found himself on the doorstep of his hero, the great American realist painter Andrew Wyeth. Wyeth not only became Bartlett’s mentor but they worked together along with Wyeth’s wife, Betsy on a five-year collaborative film project, Snow Hill.
“I’ve recommitted to painting the best paintings I can,” Bartlett said. “I want to carry Andy on in my work.”
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