Discipline: Visual Art – painting

John Barnard

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1969

John Barnard is a painter and photographer from Brooklyn. He earned an M.F.A. in painting from the University of Washington in 1971 where he studied with Chuck Close. He added photography to his disciplines and worked as both photographer and painter since 1973. In 1999, he gave up painting to concentrate on photography and has worked in fine art digital printing since 2000. He has self-published nine books of his own work, and has had his photography exhibited in numerous shows.

Studios

New Hampshire

John Barnard worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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