Barbara Greg

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| birth_date = 30 April 1900

| birth_place = Styal, Cheshire, England

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1983|1900}}

| death_place = Enfield, London

| education = {{unbulleted list|Slade School of Art|Central School of Arts and Crafts|Westminster School of Art}}

| field = Wood engraving, illustration

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| spouse = Norman Janes

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Barbara Greg (30 April 1900 – 1983) was a British artist who illustrated a number of books.{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=The Lutterworth Press|year=2009|title=The Dictionary of British Women Artists|isbn=97807-18830847}}

Biography

Greg was born in Styal in Cheshire and was educated at Bedales School.{{cite book|author=Alan Horne|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1994|title=The Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators |isbn=1-85149-1082}} She studied at the Slade School of Art in London between 1919 and 1923 where she was taught by her future husband, the artist Norman Janes, whom she married in 1925.{{cite book|author=Grant M. Waters|publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art|year=1975|title=Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950}} During this time she also took wood engraving classes at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and later, in 1926 and 1927, studied at the Westminster School of Art. Greg's interest in wood engraving as a technique may have resulted from seeing her grandfathers' collection of works by Thomas Bewick. She first exhibited a wood engraving in 1924 at the Society of Wood Engravers and continued to do so on a regular basis until 1976. Greg produced wood cut, or sometimes lino cut, designs for book dust jackets and endpapers, for calendars and also decorated piano rolls, often with musical subjects.{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}}{{cite web |url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/collection/artists/greg-barbara-1900 |title=Barbara Greg (1900-1983)|access-date=7 August 2018|work=British Council}} She illustrated several books mostly with natural history or countryside themes and contributed illustrations to the magazine Country Life.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}{{cite book|author=Robin Garton|publisher=Garton & Co / Scolar Press|year=1992|title=British Printmakers 1855-1955 A Century of Printmaking from the Etching Revival to St Ives |isbn=0-85967-968-3}} Greg exhibited on a regular basis at the Royal Academy, with the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Watercolour Society. She was elected a member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts in 1925 and became an associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1940 and a full member in 1946. In 1952 she became a full member of the Society of Wood Engravers.