RICK BARTOW Things You Know But Cannot Explain


Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated catalog with essays by co-curators Jill Hartz, executive director, and Danielle Knapp, McCosh Associate Curator, at


the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and Lawrence Fong, former curator of American and regional art at the museum. To order a catalog, call 541-346-6491.


Through August 9, 2015 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 1430 Johnson Lane on the University of Oregon campus


ADDITIONAL VENUES IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 14–December 31, 2016 The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, April 8–July 9, 2017 Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA, September 29–December 16, 2017 The Autry National Center, Los Angeles, California, March 18–July 29, 2018


If you are interested in bringing Rick Bartow: Things You Know But Cannot Explain to your museum, please contact Jill Hartz, hartz@uoregon.edu / 541-346-0972


Support for the exhibition is provided by the Ford Family Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation, Arlene Schnitzer, the Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Endowment, The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the Ballinger Endowment, Philip and Sandra Piele, and JSMA members.


Rick Bartow (American, b. 1946). Crow Hop IV, 2014. Acrylic, graphite on canvas, 72 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR


EO/AA/ADA institution committed to cultural diversity http://jsma.uoregon.edu • 541.346.3027


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