Barbara Roe Hicklin | |
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Born | Barbara Jane Roe December 8, 1918 |
Died | December 24, 2010 | (aged 92)
Known for | Painter |
Spouse | Hugh Hicklin |
Barbara Roe Hicklin (December 8, 1918 – December 24, 2010) [1] was a Canadian painter who, in 1975, became the first woman president of the Alberta Society of Artists. [2]
Barbara Roe Hicklin (née Barbara Jane Roe) was born in Toronto, Ontario on December 8, 1918. [2] The Roe family moved to Jasper, Alberta in the early 1920s and then, after the death of her father, they moved back to Ontario. [3]
Hicklin studied art in the 1930s at the Central Technical School and the Ontario College of Art and Design, both located in Toronto. [4] [2] In the early 1940s Hicklin moved to New York where she studied at the New York Phoenix School of Design and she graduated in 1946. While attending school she worked as a commercial artist. [4]
From 1951 to 1956 Hicklin worked as a theatre set designer in Sarnia, Ontario. [5] She married Hugh Hicklin sometime after World War II. [3]
In the late 1950s Hicklin relocated again, this time to Edmonton, Alberta. [2] There she took up water colour painting and joined the Alberta Society of Artists [3] and the Edmonton Art Club. [4]
In the mid-1970s Hicklin outfitted a vehicle (the "Van Go") to tour the Canadian countryside in order to create watercolour landscapes. [2] In 1980 she became a member of Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. [3]
Hicklin continued her peripatetic life, crossing the country, and making several trips to the Yukon. [4] [5]
She died on December 24, 2010. [1]
One woman shows [6]
Select group exhibitions [6]
Barbara Roe Hicklin.
Barbara Roe Hicklin | |
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Born | Barbara Jane Roe December 8, 1918 |
Died | December 24, 2010 | (aged 92)
Known for | Painter |
Spouse | Hugh Hicklin |
Barbara Roe Hicklin (December 8, 1918 – December 24, 2010) [1] was a Canadian painter who, in 1975, became the first woman president of the Alberta Society of Artists. [2]
Barbara Roe Hicklin (née Barbara Jane Roe) was born in Toronto, Ontario on December 8, 1918. [2] The Roe family moved to Jasper, Alberta in the early 1920s and then, after the death of her father, they moved back to Ontario. [3]
Hicklin studied art in the 1930s at the Central Technical School and the Ontario College of Art and Design, both located in Toronto. [4] [2] In the early 1940s Hicklin moved to New York where she studied at the New York Phoenix School of Design and she graduated in 1946. While attending school she worked as a commercial artist. [4]
From 1951 to 1956 Hicklin worked as a theatre set designer in Sarnia, Ontario. [5] She married Hugh Hicklin sometime after World War II. [3]
In the late 1950s Hicklin relocated again, this time to Edmonton, Alberta. [2] There she took up water colour painting and joined the Alberta Society of Artists [3] and the Edmonton Art Club. [4]
In the mid-1970s Hicklin outfitted a vehicle (the "Van Go") to tour the Canadian countryside in order to create watercolour landscapes. [2] In 1980 she became a member of Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. [3]
Hicklin continued her peripatetic life, crossing the country, and making several trips to the Yukon. [4] [5]
She died on December 24, 2010. [1]
One woman shows [6]
Select group exhibitions [6]
Barbara Roe Hicklin.