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Philip Barter

Philip Barter (Born 1939) is active/lives in Maine, California.  Philip Barter is known for Geometric shapes in landscape, marine and still life painting, primitivism.

A painter of bold, primitive images of northern Maine

Philip Barter was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine in 1939 and has always had an interest in art.  He studied with Spanish abstract expressionist Alfonso Sosa in California in the 1960's, and also with Fritz Rockwell after returning to Maine.  He was influenced by their use of bold form and color.  Since the time that Philip started exhibiting in the 1960's, his work has been shown in major museums and collections world-wide, and can be seen exhibited in galleries in and around Maine.

Following are comments by reviewers:

...One of Maine's leading regionalist painters.  A prolific artist, his paintings, nearly two thousand in number, are scattered throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, in both individual and corporate collections... A leading regionalist folk-art painter and interpreter of Maine's Down East experience.

– Davistown Museum (Maine)

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