"Barber, Samuel (born 1943) Represented by the Sam Barber Studio of Fine Art, Hyannis port, Mass, Wohlfarth Gallery, Provincetown and Washington, DC., Tree's Place, Orleans, Ma., Wally Findlay Galleries in New York, Palm Beach and London and the Weatherburn Gallery, Naples, Fl. Studied at Art Students League, NAD with William Draper, (recognized his talent and in the mid-1960's arranged for him to study with Henry Hensche at Cape School of Art. Works and Awards and Exhibitions include: Cape Cod Association, First Prize in Oil - 1974, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983, Cape Cod Association, Excellence in Tradition - 1974, LaGrange College Collection (Georgia) Purchase Prize - 1974, Shreveport Art Guild (Louisiana) Award - 1974, Two Flags Festival (Arizona) Award - 197, Cape Cod Association, Best in Show - 1975, 1976, Cape Cod Association, Best in Pastel - 1977, Cape Cod Association, Best in Oil, All New England - 1978. Collections: Attleboro Museum, William Benton Museum of Art - Storrs, CT, Birmingham Museum of Art - Birmingham, AL, Cape Museum of Fine Art - Dennis, MA,. Crestar Bank - Richmond, VA, Daikin Industries - Osaka, Japan, Fayette Art Museum - Fayette, AL, Fleet Bank - Boston, MA, Hale and Dorr - Boston, MA, Heritage Plantation Museum - Sandwich, MA, Hickory Museum of Art - Hickory, NC, Housatonic Museum of Art - Bridgeport, CT., IBM - Boston, MA, JEF Films - Osterville, MA, Korn/Ferry International - New York, NY, La Grange College Collection - La Grange, LA, LaSalle University Art Collection - Philadelphia, PA, McDonald's Corporation - Oak Brook, IL, Masur Museum of Art - Monroe, LA, Mead, Salmagundi Club (New York City) Philip Eisenberg Award - 198.
His career as an artist started on the streets of Provincetown where he was a well known portrait painter for over 40 years. He relocated to Hyannis Port and opened his own gallery. His works have skyrocketed in price with prestigious collectors of Hyannis Port, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket vying for his plein aire works. Works among countless collections include PAAM permanent collection, Provincetown Town collection, Cape Cod Hospital (Hyannis, main entrance hallway) and many others. He spends part of every year painting in Italy.
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
A late 20th-century Impressionist painter, he grew up in New York and earned a scholarship to the Art Students League. In the mid-1960s as a young man in his early twenties, he began working with and subsequently adopted the Impressionist color theories of Henry Hensche in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
His primary subject matter is from the landscape near his home on Cape Cod, but he frequently travels in France and Italy and also depicts public parks and gardens.
He is a member of the Society of American Impressionists.
Biography from Tree's Place Gallery:
Contemporary American Impressionist painter Sam Barber's work has been exhibited internationally, and is currently represented in the permanent collections of over thirty-five public and university art museums across the United States.
Born in Europe, Barber was brought to live in New York as a child. His artistic talent was quickly recognizable, and earned him a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York. In the mid-1960's, Barber, still in his early twenties, began working with Henry Hensche in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Now in his artistic maturity, Barber has developed over the past three decades a style which has roots in Hensche's color theory, and in American and French Impressionism (particularly Hassam, Monet, and Degas), but which at the same time is identifiably his own.
Open, light, and airy, Barber's paintings are typified by intensely saturated ""broken color"" brushwork of great chromatic complexity. His subject matter is primarily drawn from the area near his Cape Cod home, but is frequently supplemented by materials from his travels in France and Italy and from urban settings, the latter generally public parks and gardens.
Barber has been exhibited widely in one person shows in the South and Midwest as well as New York and New England. He has won numerous national and regional prizes and awards, and has been the subject of feature articles in various publications. He is a member of the Society of American Impressionists.
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