Barbara Roe Hicklin

Barbara Roe Hicklin
Born
Barbara Jane Roe

(1918-12-08)December 8, 1918
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedDecember 24, 2010(2010-12-24) (aged 92)
Known forPainter
SpouseHugh 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]

  • Centennial Library Art Gallery, Edmonton; 1970
  • Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary; 1971
  • Canadian Art Galleries, Edmonton; 1973
  • University of Calgary, Calgary; 1976
  • Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary; 1977
  • Nichols Arts Museum, Calgary; 1979

Select group exhibitions[6]

  • Alberta '73, the Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; 1973
  • Prairie '74, the Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; 1974
  • Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor, The Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary; 1976

References

  1. ^ a b "Barbara Hicklin - obituary". The Calgary Herald. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Hicklin, Barbara Roe". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b c d Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (Jun 11, 2011). "Barbara Roe Hicklin" (PDF). Watercolour News: 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d "Barbara Roe Hicklin – biography". Barbara Roe Hicklin. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  5. ^ a b "Barbara Roe Hicklin". AFA Art House - eMuseum. Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  6. ^ a b Baker, Suzanne Devonshire (1980). Artists of Alberta. Edmonton [Alta.]: University of Alberta Press. pp. 52. ISBN 0888640307. Retrieved 8 November 2017. Barbara Roe Hicklin.