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JOHN BURTON HARTER (1940-2002)
Seated Figure. Pen and ink on museum mount board. 762x609 mm; 30x24 inches. Signed in pencil, lower left. 1996.
Provenance: estate of the artist to benefit The John Burton Harter Foundation.
John B. Harter focused his artistic practice on the male body. He worked from photographs, first shooting his models then creating fully formed compositions based on these images. Often they depict his friends and acquaintances, he even photographed himself as a model. In addition to his artwork, he worked as a curator for many years before dedicating himself to his studio practice. He stated: "The development of my art has paralleled my homoerotic exploration and as I discovered aspects of the gay world, I incorporated them into my paintings and drawings. My translation of the gay world to imagery, to art, defined what I was learning to myself, and each – art and lifestyle – became a part of the other."
Recent exhibitions of his work include The Messenger: John Burton Harter & R. E. Roberts, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Los Angeles, CA, 2022 and his work was included in Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989, Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY, 2019.
His artwork is held in The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, LA; the Leslie-Lohman Museum, New York, NY; the Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA; the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT.
