Barbara Barber
{{Short description|Canadian artist}}
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|birth_name =Barbara Muir
|birth_date = 1873
|birth_place = Brantford, Ontario
|death_date = 1966 (age 93)
|death_place = Regina Beach, Saskatchewan
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|nationality = Canadian
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|awards =1940 Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
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|field = watercolour, oil, ceramics, woodcarving, china painting
|training = Moulton College
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Barbara Barber {{post-nominals|FRSA}} (1873–1966) was a Canadian artist. Barber, along with Sybil Henley Jacobson and Harriette Keating{{Cite thesis |title=Women's Activity in the Regina Little Theatre Society, 1926 to 1960 |url=https://ourspace.uregina.ca/handle/10294/14409 |publisher=Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Regina |degree=Master of Arts |language=en |first=Emily |last=Thompson-Golding}} was one of two of the founding members of the Women's Art Association of Saskatchewan.{{Cite web|url=http://scaa.usask.ca/gallery/art/associations1.html|title=SCAA - Saskatchewan and the Visual Arts - Women's Art Association|publisher=Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists|access-date=2017-03-07}} Barber moved to Regina with her husband in 1912.{{Cite book|title=Bibliographic Dictionary of Saskatchewan Artists|last=Newman|first=Marketa|publisher=Fifth House Publishers|year=1990|isbn=0-920079-66-0|location=Saskatoon, Saskatchewan|pages=[https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_u2z2/page/13 13]|url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldict0000unse_u2z2/page/13}} She trained in Toronto and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Life, education and work
Barber was born in Brantford, Ontario, in 1873. She was the daughter of John and Jennie Muir. In 1889, she attended Moulton College Baptist Boarding School in Toronto, where she took classes in art, French, and German. She married Fred Barber on June 18, 1896. The couple lived in various locations throughout Canada, including Regina (1912-1945), Vancouver (1945-1954), and Regina Beach (1954-1966). She and Fred had two sons, Gordon and Muir. She continued to live in Regina Beach after her husband's death in 1956.{{Cite book|title=The Moose Jaw Art Museum and National Exhibition Centre Permanent Art Collection|last=Jessop|first=Gerald|publisher=Moose Jaw Printing Company|year=1983|location=Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada|pages=5}}
Barber was a founding member (1920) and second president of the Regina Local Council of Women (LCW) Fine and Applied Art Committee, serving from 1922 to 1928.{{Cite web|url=https://earlysaskatchewanartinthenews.wordpress.com/2014/11/13/the-club-women-artists-of-regina/|title=The Club women artists of Regina|last=Henderson|first=Lisa G.|date=2014-11-13|website=earlysaskatchewanartinthenews|access-date=2017-03-14}} In 1928, she co-founded the Women's Art Association of Saskatchewan. She became the second Canadian to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in Britain when she was nominated for her artistic and cultural contributions to Saskatchewan's art community.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pLlTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=XTgNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1340,5280125&hl=en|title=The Leader-Post - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=2017-03-14}} In 1959 she helped to open the Art Centre at Regina Beach.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Jd5UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YTwNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6096,1855028&hl=en|title=The Leader-Post - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com|access-date=2017-03-14}}
Barber specialized in painting landscape painting in oils, still life and portraits. She also did work in china painting in limoge and Bavarian china. She also taught oil painting, ceramics, and wood carving. Her art can be viewed in public buildings in Regina, Toronto, Brandtford, Moose Jaw, and Galt.
Exhibitions
=Group exhibitions=
- 1941: The Regina Sketch Club, Hotel Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan
- 1941: Lyceum Club, Toronto, Ontario
- 1941: Women's Art Association, Moose Jaw Club, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
- 1971: Saskatchewan: Art and Artists, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan{{Cite book|title=A Dictionary of Canadian Artists: Vol. 1 A-F Revised and Expanded|last=MacDonald|first=Colin S.|publisher=Canadian Paperbacks|year=1997|isbn=0919554210|location=Ottawa, Canada|pages=180}}
=Solo exhibitions=
- 1932: City Hall, Regina, Saskatchewan
References
External links
- [http://www.sknac.ca/index.php?page=ArticlesDetail&id=36l Saskatchewan NAC]
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Category:20th-century Canadian women artists