BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS  

Barbara Muir Barber
(m Fred Barber)

1873 - 1966

Women's Art Association of Saskatchewan (Founding Member 1928)
Fellow, Royal Society of Artists
Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (Member)
Ontario Society of Artists (Member)
Federation of Canadian Artists (Founding Member 1941)


Barbara Barber was born in Brantford, Ontario in 1873. She studied art at Moulton College, a girl's school in Toronto. She married in 1912 and moved to Regina, Saskatchewan. She was a landscape painter in oil.

She was a founding member of the Federation of Canadian Artists in 1941.

She exhibited in 1945 and 1946 at the B.C. Artists annuals exhibitions at the Vancouver Art Gallery. She was living in Vancouver in 1945. She died at Regina Beach, Saskatchewan in 1966.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS
DATE EXHIBITION ARTWORK
1945 Sept. 22 - Oct. 21 VAG   B.C. Artists 14th Annual Foot Hills
Still Life
1946 Sept. 21 - Oct. 13 VAG   B.C. Artists 15th Annual Rocky Shore

References

A DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN ARTISTS (refer to M)
      Brief biography, includes info from 1966 memorial article in Regina.

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
      1 reference cited for Barber: Biographical Dictionary of Saskatchewan Artists.

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