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Death Disco, Goat #65

$150.00

Don Hartmann, Worcester, Massachusetts

Materials: Acrylic, crayon Sharpie and reclaimed wood

Size: 12 × 12 inches [click image for full view]

US Continental Shipping: Included in price.

Collectors have an opportunity to acquire the final three paintings from acclaimed artist Don Hartmann’s legendary goat series — a body of work that originally consisted of 100 distinctive goats and has since become highly sought after by collectors. Whimsical, personified and unmistakably original, Hartmann’s goats embody the artist’s celebrated ability to fuse portrait, character and cultural commentary into deeply memorable sculptural works. One goat from the series recently gained cinematic attention as the star of The Guy, The Girl and the Gilded Goat by award-winning filmmaker Brittany Severance, further cementing the mythology and collectability surrounding the series.

Hartmann’s career has been marked by notable solo exhibitions, critical recognition and inclusion in respected private and public collections, with his work earning admiration for its humor, emotional resonance, and masterful execution. His practice reflects the caliber of artists celebrated through grants, awards and institutional support within the contemporary arts landscape. We hear people in art circles asking, “Do you have a goat?”

Once these last three goats disappear into private collections, the opportunity to own an original from this beloved body of work is gone forever. Don Hartmann’s work merges the grit of urban visual culture with the emotional immediacy of outsider art, balancing rough-hewn textures, bold mark making, and spontaneous energy with surprising sophistication. There’s a punk honesty to the work — fearless, irreverent, and unconcerned with polish for polish’s sake

Don Hartmann, Worcester, Massachusetts

Materials: Acrylic, crayon Sharpie and reclaimed wood

Size: 12 × 12 inches [click image for full view]

US Continental Shipping: Included in price.

Collectors have an opportunity to acquire the final three paintings from acclaimed artist Don Hartmann’s legendary goat series — a body of work that originally consisted of 100 distinctive goats and has since become highly sought after by collectors. Whimsical, personified and unmistakably original, Hartmann’s goats embody the artist’s celebrated ability to fuse portrait, character and cultural commentary into deeply memorable sculptural works. One goat from the series recently gained cinematic attention as the star of The Guy, The Girl and the Gilded Goat by award-winning filmmaker Brittany Severance, further cementing the mythology and collectability surrounding the series.

Hartmann’s career has been marked by notable solo exhibitions, critical recognition and inclusion in respected private and public collections, with his work earning admiration for its humor, emotional resonance, and masterful execution. His practice reflects the caliber of artists celebrated through grants, awards and institutional support within the contemporary arts landscape. We hear people in art circles asking, “Do you have a goat?”

Once these last three goats disappear into private collections, the opportunity to own an original from this beloved body of work is gone forever. Don Hartmann’s work merges the grit of urban visual culture with the emotional immediacy of outsider art, balancing rough-hewn textures, bold mark making, and spontaneous energy with surprising sophistication. There’s a punk honesty to the work — fearless, irreverent, and unconcerned with polish for polish’s sake

Don Hartmann, Worcester, Massachusetts

Statement:

Don Hartmann is a pop expressionist who surveys and subverts artistic narratives through his mise-en-scènepaintings. His work aims to unearth feelings of curiosity, human vulnerability, or “purity in an alley”. He often draws on the human condition and ideas of the collective unconscious as a provocation to push the viewer into seeing more.

Hartmann rejects complete abstraction, instead he draws and paints recognizable subjects, deliberately using a raw style of rendering and a simple palette in order to convey simplicity in form. Most of the time he uses the human figure as a central subject in his paintings. In the past he worked solely off Polaroid photos that he made, creating either real or conjured scenarios.

Often uncomfortable in social situations, Hartmann creates cinematic reproductions that work opposite of the tradition moral code, and are intentionally exploitative, indulgent, difficult and unhappy.

Bio:

Don Hartmann is a standout among contemporary American artists in 2025 for his bold pop-expressionist paintings that merge cinematic, sometimes unnerving narratives with raw, minimalist visuals—inviting viewers to explore vulnerability and human curiosity through “purity in an alley” compositions. Based in Worcester, Massachusetts, Hartmann has been a defining local artistic force for decades, earning multiple fellowships and awards and exhibiting consistently across the region—from solo shows to Biennials—cementing his significance in the American art landscape. Hartmann’s confrontational and emotionally resonant style—combines his recognizability with an intentionally unrefined finish—this positions him as a compelling counterpoint to strict abstraction, making his work both relatable and intellectually provocative, especially his new botanicals rooted in deep horticultural knowledge, a departure from portraiture, but consistent with his edge, grit and humor.

Portrait: Stephen DiRado

Don Hartmann by S DiRado