Jennifer Bartlett was born in 1941 in Long Beach California where she grew up before attending Mills College in Oakland. She received her MFA from Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1965 at a time when minimalism was the dominant style. Bartlett’s instructors included the artists James Rosenquist, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, and Al Held. Bartlett is best known for her paintings and prints of mundane objects – especially houses – executing in a style that combines elements of both representational and abstract art. In 1981, she created a two-hundred foot mural for the Federal Building in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work is represented in a number of public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Tate Gallery and the Walker Art Center.
