出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/03/26 08:16 UTC 版)
Kit Barker (born in 1916 in London and died in 1988 in West Sussex) was a British painter. He was the younger brother of the poet George Barker. Self taught, he was influenced by the Surrealists in the nineteen thirties and exhibited some surrealist paintings. He served in the British Army from 1942 to 1945. Barker lived in Cornwall from 1947 to 1948. His wife, Ilse Gross, whom he married in 1948, was a writer who used the pen name "Katherine Talbot". In 1949 they travelled to the US where Kit lectured at Skidmore College in New York. Kit later taught with Hassell Smith, Elmer Bishofff and David Park at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco from 1951 to 1952. Barker lived in West Sussex from 1953 and travelled extensively in Europe and the US.