Paul Bartlett (July 8, 1881 – April 3, 1965) was an American landscape painter, art teacher, and poet. A descendant of New Hampshire Founding Father Josiah Bartlett, he was born and grew up in Taunton, Massachusetts. He attended

Phillips Exeter Academy (not for oneself) la, Finis Origine Pendet (The End Depends Upon the Beginning) gr, Χάριτι Θεοῦ (By the Grace of God) , location = 20 Main Street , city = Exeter, New Hampshire , zipcode ...

and Harvard University, where he was a member of the Signet Society. He was a writer and cartoonist for ''The Harvard Lampoon'', and its president, 1901–02. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and in France. Prior to World War I, he spent a year in St. Petersburg, Russia, as a vice-consul at the United States consulate. Bartlett returned to Chicago, where he worked as an illustrator. He married Lina H. Owlsey, and the couple moved to New York City in 1921, and divorced about 1930. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia during the 1920s and 1930s. PAFA awarded him its 1932

Temple Gold Medal Joseph E. Temple Fund Gold Medal (defunct) was a prestigious art prize awarded by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts most years from 1883 to 1968. A Temple Medal recognized the best oil painting by an American artist shown in PAFA's annual e ...

for ''The Sand Barge''.Peter Hastings Falk, ed., ''The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Volume III, 1914-1968'' (Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1989), p. 80. He moved to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1944, and subsequently taught at the

Mint Museum of Art The Mint Museum, also referred to as The Mint Museums, is a cultural institution comprising two museums, located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Mint Museum Randolph and Mint Museum Uptown, together these two locations have hundreds of collection ...

, the Burton Institute,

Guilford College Guilford College is a private liberal arts college in Greensboro, North Carolina. Guilford has both traditional students and students who attend its Center for Continuing Education (CCE). Founded in 1837 by members of the Religious Society of ...

, and other schools.Paul Bartlett Memorial Exhibition,(PDF)
exhibition catalogue, (Mint Museum of Art, 1965). He married the English painter Kathleen Mary Booker Bain (1903–1993) in 1945, and they moved to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1959. He published two books of poetry: ''Moods and Memories'' in 1957, and ''And What of Spring?'' in 1962. The Mint Museum organized a one-man show of his paintings: ''Paul Bartlett Retrospective Exhibition'', September 2 – October 27, 1959. After his death, the museum hosted a memorial exhibition. One of his landscapes is in the collection of the Louvre in Paris. Bartlett died at Greensboro in 1965. His widow donated his papers to the Smithsonian Institution.Paul Bartlett papers, 1930-1973
from Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

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