🌈 ‘Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton’ is a Pride Month Staff Pick. 🌈 Absorbing and absolutely unique, this 144-page hardcover is the first book ever published on the drawings of Bay Area Beat artist Rick Barton, whose remarkable drawing style dovetails Cocteau with Japanese and Renaissance printmaking. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, on view today through September 11, 2022, and authored by the show’s curator, Rachel Federman, the book also contains an excerpt of a beautiful 1998 essay by painter Etel Adnan, who writes: “In the very early days of [the] sixties I was introduced to a person who was spending his life sitting in two or three eating places in San Francisco and drawing ceaselessly the faces of the people around, their hands most often. … Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco legend. But he lived in a kind of anonymity, I should say clandestinity, because he was a thorough opium smoker and lonelier than a sailor.” Read more about the book via linkinbio. #rickbarton #drawingachrysanthemum #beatartist #linedrawings #pride #lgbtq #pridemonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CeoPmcbOLEU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
