The Whitewater Arts Alliance (WAA) has announced it will be presenting Elwood Warren Bartlett’s woodcut collection in September.
The collection will be on display in the gallery at the Cultural Arts Center (CAC), Sept. 2 to 25.
Collector Dan Richardson, who has been obtaining all of Bartlett’s pieces, will be present at the opening reception, which will be held Sept. 3 at the CAC from 1 to 4 p.m., according to a recent news release.
Refreshments will be provided.
According to the release, Born in 1906 in Walworth County, Elwood Warren Bartlett was a railroad clerk at the Division Engineer’s Office in Milwaukee during the late 1920s and was an American illustrator. He was a self-taught artist who created wood engravings as an illustrator and was featured in the Chicago Tribune. He created numerous woodblock engravings from the 1930s to the 1950s, most of which were landscapes.
Bartlett died in Elgin, Ill., in 1981. Since his death, his pieces have been displayed in galleries such as the Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Milwaukee Public Library, the West Bend Art Museum, and the corporate collection of the West Bend Mutual Insurance Company.
To learn more about the upcoming exhibit, visit the WAA’s website https://www.whitewaterarts.org/bartlett-woodcuts-2022.
File photo/Kim McDarison.
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