Biografie von Donald Blagge BARTON (1903-1990)

Birth place: Fitchburg, MA

Addresses: Fitchburg, MA/Rockport, MA

Profession: Painter, photographer

Studied: BMFA Sch., 1922-25, with Philip Hale; Michael Jacobs; A.T. Hibbard in Rockport, 1923; Gifford Beal; Henry Rice; W. Lester Stevens; Grand Central Art Sch., NYC, 1925-26; Hans Hoffmann in Munich and Capri, c.1926

Exhibited: Dallas AM; AIC; Rockport AA,1923-24,1989 (solo); The Casson Gallery, Boston, MA, 1927; PAFA (Philadelphia WC Show), 1930; NAD, 1931 (prize); Fitchburg Art Mus., 1931, 1932 (solo); AWCC, 1931-32 (prize); Alfred Walker Gallery of FA, 1989 (retrospective); Jane Law's Long Beach Gallery, 1990; Marbella Gallery, NYC, 1992; Kollar & Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA.

Member: PAFA; Rockport AA, 1923

Comments: Painted Gloucester harbor scenes and also ran a photography studio in Fitchburg and worked for Bachrach in W. Newton, Mass. He also taught art therapy at the hospitals of Medfield and Gardner. His mother, Mabel Augusta Barton, was also an artist (see entry).

Sources: WW40; info. courtesy of his daughter, Barbara Badstubner, Groton, MA.

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