Jennifer Bartlett & Pierre Bonnard: In and Out of the Garden

Author: Klaus Ottmann   “…as for vision, I see things differently every day, the sky, objects, everything changes continually, you can drown in it. But that’s what brings life.”—Pierre Bonnard  Painters Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) and Jennifer Bartlett (b. 1941) were both avid gardeners, and gardens—especially the ones they created for themselves—had a lifelong influence on both their work. Jennifer Bartlett & Pierre Bonnard: In and Out of the Garden presents the ways in which these two artists, the French post-impressionist Bonnard and the contemporary American artist Bartlett, have visually interpreted gardens and nature during their careers. Garden views from both inside the house and the outside are a defining subject for both painters. The profusion of colours and textures in Bonnard’s work has a parallel in Bartlett’s reinvention of figurative paintings made in the 1970s. This volume showcases over fifty paintings, drawings, and prints by both Bonnard and Bartlett, accompanied