Barbara Roe Hicklin Explained

Barbara Roe Hicklin
Birth Name:Barbara Jane Roe
Birth Date:December 8, 1918
Birth Place:Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education:Central Technical School, Ontario College of Art and Design
Field: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

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

One woman shows[6]

Select group exhibitions[6]

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Barbara Hicklin - obituary. The Calgary Herald. 8 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171109134414/http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/calgaryherald/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=147959606. 9 November 2017. live.
  2. Web site: Hicklin, Barbara Roe. Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. 7 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171108035921/http://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=5612. 8 November 2017. live.
  3. Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour. Barbara Roe Hicklin. Watercolour News. Jun 11, 2011. 10. 8 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20111126225601/http://www.cspwc.com/news/CSPWC%20NEWS%20March%202011.pdf. 26 November 2011. dead.
  4. Web site: Barbara Roe Hicklin – biography. Barbara Roe Hicklin. 8 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171109151433/http://www.barbararoehicklin.ca/artist-information/barbara-roe-hicklin-biography/. 9 November 2017. live.
  5. Web site: Barbara Roe Hicklin. AFA Art House - eMuseum. Alberta Foundation for the Arts. 8 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171109134743/http://alberta.emuseum.com/view/people/asitem/H/93?t:state:flow=d18509f8-2867-4583-8783-08401507bc23. 9 November 2017. dead.
  6. Book: Baker. Suzanne Devonshire. Artists of Alberta. 1980. University of Alberta Press. Edmonton [Alta.]. 0888640307. 52. registration. Barbara Roe Hicklin.. 8 November 2017.

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