biography of John Murray BARTON (1921)

Birth place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, art dealer

Studied: ASL; Tschacbasov Sch. Art, New York.

Exhibited: Numerous nat. & regional exhibs.

Member: Le Soc. Int. del Who's Who, Geneva, Switz.

Work: MMA; BM; MoMA, Haifa, Israel; Butler Inst Am. Art, Youngstown, OH; PMA; commissions: ceramic mural (with Lumin Martin Winter), New York Bd. Educ. for PS 1941; oil & sand mural (with Lumin Martin Winter), New York Bd. Educ for Riverdale Jr. High Sch.; History of Money (oil, with Louise August), SC State Bank, Columbia; oil & lacquer mural, Polyclinic Hosp., New York; acrylic on concrete (with Louise August), Gilbert's Hotel, Fallsburgh, NY.

Comments: Positions: pres., John Barton Assocs., Inc., 1965-; pres., JMB Publ., Ltd., 1968-; pres., Multiple Reproductions, Inc., 1970-; sec.-treas., Int. Assoc. Artists, Ltd., 1972-. Publications: illus., Space Aeronautics, Print Mag., Printers Ink. Teaching: Pvt. classes at studio on creative expression, 1960-1965; lectr., creative expression, univ. art depts., throughout the East Coast, 1960-1965. Specialty of gallery: publisher of original fine art graphics; art shows at colleges, universities, galleries and others.