Kit Barker
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Kit Barker | |
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| Born | 1879 |
| Died | 1965 |
| Occupation | British Army |
Kit Barker (1916–1988) was a British painter.
Biography
Barker was born in
Barker served in the British Army from 1942 to 1945. In 1948 he married the writer Ilse Gross (1921–2006), who wrote under the pen name Katherine Talbot. They had one son, Thomas (born 1962).[6] Barker lived in Cornwall from 1947 to 1948, where he and Ilse were involved with the artists' colony in St Ives.[7]
In 1949 the Barkers travelled to the USA where Kit lectured at
From 1953 Barker lived on Bexley hill, Sussex[7] and travelled extensively in Europe and the US. He died in West Sussex in 1988.
Career
Barker was a self-taught artist. His influences included the
His work is found in private collections in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the United States and Germany.
Public collections
Barkers works have been purchased by:
- Olsen Foundation, US
- Contemporary Art Society, London
- Magdalen, Nuffield, New and Pembroke Colleges, Oxford
- Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester NY, USA
- Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
- Bradford City Art Gallery
- West Ridingof Yorkshire Education Committee
- Nottingham Training College
- Aberdeen Art Gallery
- Nuffield Foundation Pictures for Hospitals Fund
- Isle of Wight Health Authority Pictures for Hospitals
- Arts Council of Great Britain
Major one-man exhibitions
- 1950 Weyhe Gallery, New York
- 1951 Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
- 1951 St. Louis Artists' Guild, St Louis
- 1957 Hanover Gallery, London
- 1959 Waddington Galleries, London
- 1960 Waddington Galleries, Montreal
- 1961 Waddington Galleries, London
- 1964 Waddington Galleries, London
- 1965 Waddington Galleries, Montreal
- 1966 Waddington Galleries, London
- 1967 Waddington Galleries, Montreal
- 1970 Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
- 1971 Villiers Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
- 1972 Toorak Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
- 1972 Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
- 1978 Christ's Hospital Arts Centre, Horsham, Sussex
- 1981 The New Arts Centre, London
- 1988 Newburg Street Gallery, London
- 2001 University College Chichester, Otter Gallery, Sussex
- 2005 The Canon Gallery Petworth, Sussex
Barker had regular one man exhibitions throughout the 1960s and 1970s at: The David Paul Gallery, Chichester, Sussex; Reid Gallery, Guildford, Surrey and Century Galleries, Henley on Thames.
Major group exhibitions
- 1948 The Crypt Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
- 1948 Downings Bookshop, St Ives, Cornwall
- 1948 St George's Gallery, London
- 1949 Durlacher Gallery, New York, NY
- 1951 Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
- 1951 Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA
- 1952 Art Institute of Chicago, IL (Drawings from 12 countries)
- 1954 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (Eight Painters)
- 1957 John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool
- 1959 Contemporary Art Society, London (Recent Acquisitions)
- 1960 Irish Exhibition of Living Art
- 1960 Birmingham City Art Gallery(Contemporary British Painters)
- 1960 International Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1961 Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY (Two Painters)
- 1962 Festival of Arts, Battle, Sussex
- 1967 Worthing Municipal Art Gallery, Sussex (Two Painters)
- 1969 Camden Arts Centre, London (English Traditional Landscape)
- 1973 Paintings in Hospitals, London
- 1974 Festival of the City of London, London
- 1976 Madden Gallery, London
- 1981 New Arts Centre, London
- 1985 Parkin Gallery, London (Cornwall 1925 -1975)
- 1987 Questra Gallery, Kingston upon Thames, SU
- 1990 Birch and Conran Gallery, London
Other reproduced works include
- Frost and Reed [Venture] prints, 'Marsh Grasses & Inner Harbour, Concarneau 1964.
- Winter At Gurnard's Head, poem poster with David Wright MidNAG 1979.
- Curlew, poem poster with Leslie Norris Armstrong poem poster 1969.
- North Haven, poem poster with Elizabeth Bishop Lord John Press 1979.
References
- ^ George Barker, Martha Fodaski, Twayne Publishers, 1969, p. 13
- ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "The cold heart of passion's thief".
- ^ Encyclopaedia of British Writers, From 1800 to the Present, second edition, 20th Century and Beyond, ed. George Stade et al, DWJ Books LLC, 2009, p. 35
- ^ Rough Draft: The Modernist Diaries of Emily Holmes Coleman, 1929-1937, ed. Elizabeth Podnieks, University of Delaware Press, 2012, p. 252
- ^ Ilse Barker's obituary in the Times
- ^ a b c Oldham, Alison (3 June 2006). "Obituary: Ilse Barker". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
Further reading
- 'Contemporary British Art', ISBN 978-0-14-020250-2
- St Ives 1939-64 Twenty Five Years Of Painting, Sculpture And Pottery, ISBN 0-946590-20-6.
- Kit Barker, Cornwall 1947-1948 Recollections Of Painters And Writers, Katherine Talbot, The Book Gallery, 1993 ISBN 1-897986-02-5(Katherine Talbot was the pen name of Barker's wife, Ilse.)
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