10 Artists you need to Know 👀 #3

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1 | Bo Bartlett

Bo Bartlett (b. 1955) is an American realist painter whose monumental canvases blend everyday life with dreamlike surrealism.

A protégé of Andrew Wyeth, he paints family and friends in his Georgia childhood home and Maine island retreat. Critics dismissed his work as “idiotic” in the 1990s, but he gained passionate collectors and in 2018 Columbus State University opened the Bo Bartlett Center in his hometown. His paintings combine Hopper’s loneliness with Lynch’s uncanny strangeness.