biography of H. Waddell BARBER (1907-?)

Birth place: Whitwell, TN

Addresses: Scarsdale, NY

Profession: Painter, teacher, illustrator, lecturer

Studied: John Herron AI, with William Forsyth; Louisville Conservatory of Music & Art; NAD with Leon Kroll; Cincinnati A. Acad.; ASL with George Grosz, Joseph Hirsch, Harry Sternberg, Robert Brackman.

Exhibited: An American Group," Rockefeller Center, 1941; Municipal Gal., N.Y., 1941; CM, 1946; ACA Gal., Regional, 1952; ACA Gal., group, 1953 (prize); BM, 1953; PAFA, 1953, 1963; Audubon A., 1953, 1954, 1958, 1961; Woman's Cl., White Plains, N.Y., 1955 (solo); Panoras Gal., 1958 (solo); Art: USA, New York, 1958; White Plains Pub. Lib., 1959-1961 (solo); Westchester Gld., 1960; Silvermine Gld. A., 1961; Westchester A. Soc., 1963; Harrison Pub. Lib., 1963 (solo); Inst. Contemp. A., Boston, 1964; IBM Research Center, 1965. "

Member: AEA.

Comments: Positions: United Business Publishers," 1929-31; "World News of the Week," 1947-51; art dir., "World News of the Week," 1949-51; instr. a., various clubs, 1950-58; Assoc. Artists of Mt. Vernon; Hampshire Cl., Mamaroneck, N.Y., 1959-1965; IBM Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., and others. Contrib., N.Y. Times Sunday Book Review. Lectures on art: "Middle Ages to Contemporary," MMA, 1953-58 sponsored by Fine Arts Committees of Scarsdale, Larchmont and Mt. Vernon, N.Y. "