Don Bachardy

Donald Jess Bachardy (born May 18, 1934) is an American portrait artist. Bachardy was the partner of Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years.Ann Harold (02-15-2010), "A Brush With Life", LAmag.com.  He is known for writing Frankenstein: The True Story.

His works reside in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum of Art in San Francisco, the University of Texas, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Portrait Gallery, London.

One of Bachardy's best known works is the official gubernatorial portrait of Jerry Brown that hangs in the California State Capitol Museum.

References

Other websites

 The Eyes of Don Bachardy (American Film Foundation)
 Portraits by Don Bachardy 
 Nudes by Don Bachardy 
 Don Bachardy at Craig Krull Gallery 
 Oral history interview with Don Bachardy, 2009 May 21 – Oct 7 from the Smithsonian Archives of American Art


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