Frederick Barthelme

Frederick Barthelme
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Born	1943
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Frederick Barthelme is an American writer. He co-founded the Red Crayola with Mayo Thompson in the summer of 1966 and served as the group's original drummer until the summer of 1967. Barthelme moved to New York in 1967 to pursue writing and conceptual art, but frequently returned to Houston. After the Red Crayola disbanded in 1968, he continued to collaborate with Mayo Thompson on writing and music projects until Thompson left Houston in 1973. In the 1980s and 1990s he became known for his fiction writing.

With The Red Crayola/Mayo Thompson

The Red Crayola

Drums

• Dairymaid's Lament (single)
• The Parable of Arable Land
• Coconut Hotel
• Live 1967

Post-Crayola

• Corky's Debt to His Father
  • Around the Home - co-writer
• Rangoon
• War and War

• Old Tom Clark
  • Old Tom Clark - co-writer
  • Pig Ankle Strut - co-writer
• The Rockin' Blue Diamonds

Credits on later releases

• Three Songs on a Trip to the United States
  • photography (from Rangoon)

• Fingerpainting
  • sampled guest (from the sessions for The Parable of Arable Land)
• Letters to the Jackson Pollock Bar in the Style of the Red Krayola
  • credited with "deep structures" (cf. The Parable of Arable Land)

Conceptual art

Date	Title	Materials	Source	Photo
1967	Untitled	Tape	Six Years (1972, ed. Lucy R. Lippard)	Yes
November 1968	The Complex Figure-Ground Issue as Dealt with by the Young Artist David Frame	35-page booklet	Six Years
March 1969			March 1-31, 1969 (1969, ed. Seth Siegelaub) Six Years	Yes
May 23, 1969	Three from May 23rd, 1969		Art-Language Vol. 1 No. 2 (1970)	Yes
1969	Instead of making any art I bought this television set.	Television	557,087	Yes
January - February 1970	Two Works		Six Years	Yes
February 6, 1970	Substitution 15		Six Years	Yes
February 21, 1970	Substitution 24		Conceptual Art (1972, ed. Ursula Meyer)	Yes
February 22, 1970	Substitution 25		Conceptual Art (1972, ed. Ursula Meyer)
			Information
			Videotapes

	Location	Date	Exhibition	Gallery	Organizer	Work
	New York	November 1967	Opening Exhibition	Normal Art	Joseph Kosuth
	New York	March 1969	March 1-31, 1969		Seth Siegelaub
	New York	May 18 — June 15, 1969	Number 7	Paula Cooper Gallery	Lucy R. Lippard
	Seattle	September 5 - October 5, 1969	557,087	Seattle Art Museum	Lucy R. Lippard	Instead of making any art I bought this television set
	Vancouver	November 1969	Photo Show	Student Union Building Gallery, UBC	Illyas Pagonis Christos Dikeakos
		April 10 - August 25, 1970	Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects
		April 17 - May 12, 1970	Art in the Mind
		July 2 - September 20, 1970	Information

• Exhibited at Joseph Kosuth’s Museum of Normal Art in 1967
• Text "Three from May 23rd, 1969" appears in Art-Language Vol. 1 No. 2 (February 1970)
• Part of Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects exhibition (April 10 - August 25, 1970)

Bibliography

Fiction

Year	Title	Type	Publisher	Notes
1970	Rangoon	story collection	Winter House	illustrated by Mayo Thompson
1971	War and War	novel?	Doubleday
1983	Moon Deluxe	story collection	Simon & Schuster
1984	Second Marriage	novel	Simon & Schuster
1985	Tracer	novel	Simon & Schuster
1987	Chroma	story collection	Simon & Schuster
1988	Two Against One	novel	Weidenfeld & Nicolson
1989	Natural Selection	novel	Viking
1993	The Brothers	novel	Viking
1995	Painted Desert	novel	Viking
1997	Bob the Gambler	novel	Houghton Mifflin
2003	Elroy Nights	novel	Counterpoint
2009	Waveland	novel	Doubleday
2014	There Must Be Some Mistake	novel	Little Brown

Memoirs

Year	Title	Publisher	Notes
1999	Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss	Houghton Mifflin	with Steve Barthelme