biography of Morton BARTLETT (1909-1992)

Birth place: Chicago, IL

Death place: Boston, MA

Addresses: Boston, MA

Profession: Craftsman, sculptor, photographer

Studied: Harvard (dropped out); self-taught

Work: Colection d"Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland; Fries Mus., Amsterdam, Holland; SFMA

Comments: He worked as a free-lance photographer, service station attendant, traveling furniture salesman, and printing designer. But privately, his obsession was creating an extraordinary collection of sculpture of dressed but eerily life-like children which are like large dolls. After his death, the collection was discovered intact and exhibited by Marion Harris.

Sources: Marion Harris, Family Found: The Lifetime Obsession of Self-Taught Artist Morton Bartlett (1995, Simsbury, CT)