José Bartoli (1910-1995) was a painter, set designer, and artist born in Barcelona, who lived and worked in California, Mexico, and Spain. Bartoli (Catalan: Josep Bartolí i Guiu) was painting and working as a draftsman when he was very young, and he grew up supporting trade unionism before the Spanish Civil War. Near the end of the war, Bartoli crossed the French border, and was placed in a total of seven concentration camps before he finally escaped and returned to his life as a painter, moving between California, Mexico, and Spain.
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Jose Bartoli
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Region: CALIFORNIA, MEXICO and SPAIN
MacDowell Fellowships: 1975
Studios
Firth
Jose Bartoli worked in the Firth studio.
Originally a working barn perched atop the namesake hill of Hillcrest Farm, this building was converted to serve the arts in 1956. A grand set of windows was installed to make the large interior suitable for visual artists, bringing in abundant natural light from the north. The addition of a screened porch and accessible entrance ramp…