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Robert Barrell Biography
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1912 |
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Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
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1933 - 1937 |
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Enrolled as a scholarship student at the Art Students’ League where he studied with Bridgeman, Sternberg, Leahy, Miller, Newal, Brook and Abeis
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1939 - 1940 |
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Began his professional art career when he assisted Carl Roters on the creation of two murals in the Con Edison and Crosley Buildings for the 1939-40 World’s Fair. He also assisted Edward Lanning with the New York Public Library’s main building at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.
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1940 |
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Became a WPA staff artist at the Hayden Planetarium in the Museum of Natural History, and created five mural panels for the WPA’s Mural Division
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1940 - 1949 |
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Exhibits at 57th Street Galleries in New York, including the Morgan, Bonestal, Gallery Neuf and Bertha Schaeffer Gallery. Invited to participate at the Pennsylvania Academy Annual, Chicago Annual and Carnegie International. Lives and works at studio at 30 E. 14th Street. Other artists in the building were Sternberg, Lanning, Cikowsky, Kuniyoshi, Leland Bell and Robert De Niro. Barrell gave Saturday night open houses which were attended by writers, musicians and poets such as Kenneth Patchen, Maxwell Bodenheim, and one evening, Dylan Thomas read his poetry.
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1968 |
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Creates Forest Park School of Art in Woodhaven, Queens
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1950 - 1969 |
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Creates “Nature Series” of pastels and oils, embracing the still life, landscape and figure, perhaps best described as “Romantic Realism.”
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1988 |
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Receives $10,000 Purchase Award prize at the 13th Annual Exhibition of Art and Law (West Collection) for his painting, “The Patriots.”
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1970 - 1989 |
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Develops style influenced from his preoccupation with political satire and surrealism
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1991 |
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Works are included in “Indian Space: Native American Sources of American Abstract Art,” Exhibition at Baruch Art Gallery
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