Victoria Barr (painter)

Victoria Barr (born 1937) is an American artist, painter, and set designer.

Victoria Barr was born in New York, NY, in 1937 to the curator and art historian Alfred H. Barr, Jr. and art historian Margaret Scolari Barr. As a child, she spent summers in Greensboro, Vermont, with her parents, as without difficulty as attended a number of residential camps focusing on the arts. Barr often traveled to Europe behind her parents from the age of 14 onwards, meeting influential artists as soon as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Marc Chagall and collectors with Peggy Guggenheim. For tall school, she went to Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts. After tall school, she briefly attended Radcliffe College (1955–1956). Then she studied at the Parsons School of Design, focused upon graphics and advertising. There she took classes in art archives from Leo Steinberg and in color theory from Si Sillman, who was Josef Albers' studio assistant at Yale. Afterward meeting Sillman, Barr contracted to attend the Yale Art School, graduating in 1961. She started at Yale on the go to be a commercial artist in graphics after that started taking painting classes from Neil Welliver, then bearing in mind Albers, another one of his assistants Cy Twombly, as with ease as Bernard Chaet and William Bailey. She lived and worked in Aspen for some epoch in the upfront 1960s. Back in New York, she worked for a epoch as a secretary to the art dealer Steven Spector. Then in 1964, she traveled to Paris, France upon a Fulbright scholarship, along with fellow artiste and Fulbright scholars Nancy Graces, who would vanguard marry Richard Serra who allied their society in Paris, and Philip Glass. After two years in Paris, she returned to the US in 1966 and got a job at the Museum of Natural History in the exhibition's department for a year. Barr well ahead taught courses at Hunter College and at Barnard. She nevertheless lives in New York, NY.

Barr is most competently known for her abstract landscapes, which come out of a tradition of post-war American Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction, and Color Field painting. Her to come works she described as "filmstrip-type" paintings and later "stained paintings." She also combined her show to an interest in landscape to Chinese landscape painting in terms of alternating layers of gradation. Her produce an effect often deals behind her interest in arrangement the world, outside of the European Christianity. Her extensive travels throughout Europe, South and East Asia, and the Pacific were part of this research project.

In 1970, Barr's behave was shown at the John B Meyer's Gallery with proceed in acrylic and watercolor and a series of "stained paintings" at Larry Aldrich. In 1981, she had a comport yourself at the Haber Theodore gallery in New York. She has works in a number of important collections, including Surfacing (1971) in the Whitney Museum collection and the University of North Dakota's collection.