Bo Bartlett "Lifeboat" Limited Edition Giclée Print 55 / 250

Famed artist Bo Bartlett's stunning and allegorical "Lifeboat" Limited Edition giclée print draws the observer into a world of uncertainty and risk. A mirror of our own reality confronts us. We identify with the protagonist (the Lifeguard), not knowing what the massive waves will reveal next, but "obligated" to continue on, much like our daily lives exert a force and logic of their own upon us...

According to Tom Butler, describing Bo Bartlett in his book , Bo Bartlett, Heartland:

"Bo Bartlett is an American realist with a modernist vision. His paintings are well within the tradition of American realism as defined by artists such as Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. Like these artists, Bartlett looks at America’s heart—its land and its people—and describes the beauty he finds in everyday life. His paintings celebrate the underlying epic nature of the commonplace and the personal significance of the extraordinary.

Bartlett was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where realist principles must be grasped before modernist ventures are encouraged. He pushes the boundaries of the realist tradition with his multilayered imagery. Life, death, passage, memory, and confrontation coexist easily in his world. Family and friends are the cast of characters that appear in his dreamlike narrative works. Although the scenes are set around his childhood home in Georgia or his island summer home in Maine, they represent a deeper, mythical concept of the archetypal, universal home."

This special work measures approximately 36 x 32 inches and is framed in a classical frame with Museum backing and UV protective glass.

Bartlett is among America's most important realist artists and his works are found in galleries, private collections and museums around the world.