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LIFE AND WORK Discovered in 1993 by Marion Harris, a Connecticut antiques dealer, Morton Bartlett's works are now well known and keenly sought after by museums and collectors. Marion Harris is the primary resource for all Morton Bartlett vintage material and is the editor of FAMILY FOUND a 60 page color catalogue on his life and work. Morton Bartlett (1909 - 1992) born in Chicago and adopted at age seven by a Boston family, was a private man whose passion was creating a fantasy family- a group of perfectly sculpted children, twelve girls and three boys, aged mainly 6 -16, wearing meticulously hand made clothes and specially constructed wigs. Dressed and posed, they were then photographed in staged scenarios, at once both quotidian and dramatic: at home reading a book, scolding a toy dog, crying in disappointment or happily playing at the beach. This fantasy world crossed over into reality in 1963 when it became public, fleetingly, in a Yankee magazine article about his work of the preceding three decades. Although authorized by Bartlett himself, the attention and praise which followed surprised him, and led to this remarkable body of work being packed away, each child in its container, to remain unseen for the next thirty years. Still wrapped in 1963 newspapers when it was purchased by Marion Harris, the work was introduced to the public in New York in 1994 with the accompanying catalogue FAMILY FOUND. Since then, Bartlett's sculptures, photographs and drawings have received wide acclaim and the story seemed to be as complete as his family......until now. In 2007, almost fifteen years after the inital discovery of his work, a group of Bartlett's original color slides recently discovered by a Californian collector, are now available in an edition of modern prints. Adding yet another chapter to this story, these large prints amplify Bartlett's exceptional work and our insight into it. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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