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[ca. 1930]-2013 (Creation)
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- Barry, Frank
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0.65 m of textual records (approx. 2 boxes)
76 photographs, b&w and col. Prints
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Paintings
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Frank Barry was born on April 16, 1913 in London, UK and died on July 31, 2013 in Mississauga. During the war 1939-1945, he served in the Royal Air Force, where he contributed a number of witty cartoons to the squadron newsletter. He met his wife, Patricia Rawlinson, in 1944 (while in he was in the RAF) and they married in northern India in 1945. They had two children, Ailsa and Christopher.
After the war, he studied painting and teaching at the Ealing School of Art in London, UK from 1946 to 1950. In 1950-51, he studied at Hornsey School of Art, also in London, England. From 1951 to 1963, he was an Art Master at the Carisbrooke Grammar School on the Isle of Wight, UK. He moved to Montreal with his family in 1963 and taught art at the Northmount High School. He entered Sir George Williams University and graduated with a MA in Art Education in 1969. He was appointed lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts at SGWU in 1967-1968 and was promoted assistant professor of Fine Arts (Art Education) in 1973. He retired in June 1978 but continued teaching as part-time lecturer until 1981-1982.
- Frank Barry was chairman of the Association of Art Specialist of Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal in 1965 and 1966.
- He moved to Missisauga in 1984.
- Barry was elected Mississauga Senior Artist of the Year in 1995.
- Frank Barry was one of the first artists to exhibit at the recently opened Distillery Art and Culture Centre in Toronto, in 2003.
- He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts and the Ontario Society of Artists.
Custodial history
The documents were donated to Records Management and Archives by his son Christopher Barry, in 2019.
Scope and content
The fonds is organized in 2 series: PERSONNAL LIFE and PROFESSIONNAL LIFE.
The PERSONNAL LIFE series is comprised of 1 subseries: the EDUCATION sub-series is comprised of records related to Frank Barry’s early education in art at the Ealing School of Art, the Hornsey School of Art and the Carisbrooke Grammar School where he was and Art Masters, and records from his later studies in Art Education at Sir George Williams University. It includes notes on different artists and pedagogical notes on different books related to his master’s degree in art education. It also includes multiple diplomas of the different schools he attended. The PERSONNAL LIFE series also includes personal correspondence.
The PROFESSIONNAL LIFE series is comprised of 2 subseries. The TEACHING subseries is comprised of 1 sub-subseries: the SIR GEORGE WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY AND CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY sub-subseries is comprised of course notes and bibliographies of the Psychology 591 course, a “Guide pédagogique” sent to translation and research for his theses in team-teaching in art education. The TEACHING subseries also contains a notebook from Carisbrooke Grammar school and art exams from Northmount High School.
The CREATION AND ARTWORKS subseries is comprised of 2 sub-subseries. The MONTREAL sub-subseries is comprised of sketchbooks, drawings, artwork and unpublished works produced most notably in Montreal and at other places. The OTHERS sub-subseries is comprised of sketchbooks, drawings, artwork and unpublished works created before he moved to Montreal. It includes drawings of war times and many sketches of the Isle of Whight in the UK where his children were born.
The PROFESSIONNAL LIFE series also includes articles and different press clippings mentioning Frank Barry’s work. It includes records of his involvement in the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers of Quebec (PAPT) and the Associations of Arts Specialists of the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal. It also includes Frank Barry’s Sir Georges Williams access card, a notebook and correspondence.
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Certain photographs and sketchbooks are damaged.
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A selection of digital objects are accessible: https://archive.org/details/rma-concordia-publications?and%5B%5D=creator%3A%22frank+barry%22