Victoria Barr (painter)

Victoria Barr was born in New York City on September 25, 1937, to art historian Margaret Scolari Barr, and Alfred H. Barr Jr., inaugural director of the Museum of Modern Art. As a child, she spent summers in Greensboro, Vermont, with her parents, and attended residential camps focusing on the arts. There Barr took classes in art history from Leo Steinberg and in color theory from Sewell Sillman, who was Josef Albers' studio assistant at Yale. Barr lived and worked in Aspen for some time in the early 1960s. Barr traveled to Paris, France on a Fulbright scholarship, along with fellow artist and Fulbright scholars Nancy Graces, who would later marry Richard Serra who joined their group in Paris, and Philip Glass. She died in Manhattan on March 28, 2025, at the age of 87. == Artwork ==

Barr is best known for her abstract landscapes, which come out of a tradition of post-war American Abstract Expressionism, Lyrical Abstraction, and Color Field painting. She referred to her early work as "stained paintings." She has works in a number of important collections, including Surfacing (1971) in the Whitney Museum collection and the University of North Dakota's collection. == References ==