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]
Biography[edit]
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]
Exhibitions[edit]
One woman shows[6]
- Centennial Library Art Gallery, Edmonton; 1970
- Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary; 1971
- Canadian Art Galleries, Edmonton; 1973
- University of Calgary, Calgary; 1976
- Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary; 1977
- Nichols Arts Museum, Calgary; 1979
Select group exhibitions[6]
- Alberta '73, the Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; 1973
- Prairie '74, the Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; 1974
- Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor, The Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary; 1976
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Barbara Hicklin - obituary". The Calgary Herald. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Hicklin, Barbara Roe". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (Jun 11, 2011). "Barbara Roe Hicklin" (PDF). Watercolour News: 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Barbara Roe Hicklin – biography". Barbara Roe Hicklin. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Barbara Roe Hicklin". AFA Art House - eMuseum. Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
- ^ a b Baker, Suzanne Devonshire (1980). Artists of Alberta. Edmonton [Alta.]: University of Alberta Press. pp. 52. ISBN 0888640307. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
Barbara Roe Hicklin.