Hollywood

Don Bachardy (born May 18, 1934) is an American portrait artist who resides in Santa Monica, California. His drawings and paintings are in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the de Young, San Francisco; the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA; the Smithsonian, Washington D.C.; and the National Portrait Gallery, London. He has published nine books of drawings, including two collaborations with Christopher Isherwood. Armistead Maupin (born in 1944) is an esteemed American writer. Maupin worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. In 1976, he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener, and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. Three miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner.

• Includes portraits of: Charlotte Rampling, Henry Fonda, Mia Farrow, Jack Nicholson, Angela Lansbury, Katherine Hepburn, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Matthew Modine, Tim Robbins, Julianne Moore, Andie McDowell, Tom Waits, Madeleine Stowe, Simon Callow, Patrick Swayze, Brooke Sheilds, Melanie Griffith, Joan Rivers, Stockard Channing, Jon Voight, Jane Fona, Joan Collins, Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Streisand, Natalie Wood, Marlene Dietrich, John Gielgud, Gore Vidal, John Huston, Ian McKellen, and many, many more.

The hundreds of pages of portraits in the new book give fresh life to many of these faces we know from handfuls of often recycled film stills. -- Tom Paul Jones FrontiersLA, September 25, 2014 Interspersed like palate cleansers are his delightful abstracts which come as a zen-like surprise. The sheer number of famous people Bachardy has painted is hard to believe. And he has been gathering these portraits and autographs for 50 years. -- Christopher Harrity The Advocate, September 29, 2014 At 80, Don Bachardy has built a body of work that can only be described as staggering. With tremendous detail and nuance, he has drawn or painted the portraits of thousands of people, many of them noteworthy luminaries of the Hollywood star system. -- Matthew Hays, Queerty Diplo: Towards more inclusive and effective diplomacy, November 11, 2014 With the release of Hollywood, Bachardy says he's done his service to this storied town...For the time being, though, he is just happy to see so many of them in Hollywood, which contains the greatest variety of his work of any book. It's a tribute to his age and experience, which has taught him where to look for truth in the quiet moments that pass between him and another human. -- Jessica Gelt Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2014 His latest book, Hollywood, published in November of this year, includes over 300 works, from his subtle pencil-on-paper explorations to his bold-stroked, fauvist color paintings. Included is a galaxy of stars and cultural icons from the last century as well as some new millennium personalities. -- Christopher Harrity The Advocate, November 26, 2014 Hollywood is the highly anticipated monograph of celebrated portrait artist Don Bachardy, with a Preface written by Armistead Maupin. With more than 300 original paintings and drawings, this stunning collection features the most famous actors and influential figures in Hollywood including directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, costumers, producers, and agents. December 16, 2014 Hollywood, by Don Bachardy explores Bachardy's wonderfully expressive portraits of some of the largest names in show business including the artist Himself, Christopher Isherwood and Jane Fonda. Up close and personal. -- Max Hirschberger, Document Journal February 11, 2015 This show arrives only a few months after the publication of a large-format art book, titled Hollywood, containing over 300 Bachardy portraits of actors, directors screenwriters, producers and other film industry personalities. -- Lyle Zimskind Los Angeles Magazine, February 6, 2015 Hollywood is a half century retrospective treasury of portraits breathing with life. -- Michele Ranard hello lovely, March 21, 2015 It [Hollywood] is a retrospective of his early drawings (in black and white) and later paintings (in colour) of various movie stars, film directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, costumiers, choreographers, composers, columnists, producers, and even agents. -- Kevin Kopelson London Review Of Books, April 9, 2015 Working from life, and never from photographs, Bachardy captures his sitter's essence as he focuses on elements such as personality, physique, mood, and color. For his first monograph of portrait work, the artist personally selected more than 300 original paintings and drawings that best represent his oeuvre. -- Miss Rosen Crave Online, June 12, 2015