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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">In October of this year, Newport Public Library will be offering for exhibit 17 original Rick Bartow sketches. The sketches were given
to the Library as Rick’s way of saying thank you. Beginning in August, the drawing will show at the Newport Visual Arts Center. The show runs through September and will then be made available for public libraries in Oregon. Please look at the catalog (attached)
and read excerpts from the catalog below. If you are interested in displaying these works – all of celebrated authors – send me your contact information. You will need enough display space for these framed works that are all in the 18 x 24 range.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-SemiboldIt",sans-serif">From the Heart: Author Drawings by Rick Bartow<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">has been an exhibition-in-the-waiting for nearly 20 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">In 2000, Rick Bartow—Newport, Oregon’s native son<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">and internationally recognized visual artist—donated<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">a portfolio of seventeen small portrait drawings to the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Newport Public Library.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">In the
</span><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-It",sans-serif">From the Heart
</span></i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">exhibition—artist-titled—<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Rick Bartow captures the faces of W.H. Auden, Bertolt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Brecht, Robert Bridges, Joseph Conrad, Emily<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Dickinson, T.S. Elliot, William Emerson, A.E. Housman,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Archibald MacLeish,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Sandberg, John Steinbeck, A.C.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Swinburne, Leo Tolstoy and Elinor Wylie. The series<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">includes mixed media on rice paper and repurposed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">papers (often letters and envelopes from friends).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Bartow uses watercolor with pencil and pastel markings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Look closely, and each mark has a particular signature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">(The author names are drawn in the artist’s non-dominant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">left hand, creating a childlike title for each work.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">“Rick lived surrounded by books, piles of books,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">stacked about his chosen place of comfort and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">observation—his perch at the edge of a second story<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">picture window that encased a chryon of the Nye<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Beach neighborhood,” writes Karen Murphy, Rick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Bartow’s longtime friend and trustee of his estate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">“And always the books, piled high or resting on edge,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">interspersed with periodicals, art magazines,
</span><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-It",sans-serif">Indian<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-It",sans-serif">Country Today</span></i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">, cards and letters from friends and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">admirers from around the world: a crazy quilt from his<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">curious mind and ever-evolving imagination.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">“In the abyss following the death of his wife<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Julie, Rick expressed his gratitude for authors in the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">form of the drawings in this exhibit. With minimal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">lines and an abbreviated palette of pastels, he portrayed<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">these men and women with loving seriousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">Further, Rick chooses the ephemera of his life and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">vocation as the background of the portraits. This choice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">reveals his sly, dry sense of humor—Indian style with<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">multiple meanings.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">“Rick came to the library daily as volunteer to help<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">get the books back on the shelf after the library expansion,”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">writes Wyma Rogers, the Newport Library Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">at the time of the donation. “Rick said it was part of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">what he did to get back into painting. He credited the<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"MyriadPro-Regular",sans-serif">library with helping him get through his grief.”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ted Smith, Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Newport Public Library
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Newport, OR 97365<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">541.574.0600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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