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W. Perry Barton
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W. Perry BartonW. Perry Barton began exhibiting in Boston in 1978 with the Bromfield Gallery; his first solo exhibition in 1979.He received an Artists' Foundation Fellowship in Drawing in 1981, his work subsequently included in shows at the Danforth Museum (Framingham) and the Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield) that same year.His work was included in the Boston Drawing Show in 1991 and 1993.Barton received a New England Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship in the Works on Paper Category in 1994 with an exhibition, New England Today, following in 1995.The summers of 1992 and 1996 found Barton in Viterbo, Italy teaching figure drawing under the auspices of the Boston Visual School's Italian Studio Arts program at the Accademia de Belle Arte de Lorenzo de Viterbo.He served on the Board of Directors of the Boston Visual School from 1990 to 1997.Most recently, Barton's work was featured in a major solo retrospective at Boston University's Sherman Gallery, W. Perry Barton: Works on Paper 1983 - 2001 (October 25 - December 14, 2001).Hold Still