Norman Barr
(1908 - 1994)
Norman Barr was active/lived in New York. Norman Barr is known for mod figure-working class, mural.
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Biography Norman Barr
Norman Barr, WPA artist, was born in 1908 and died in NYC in
1994. He studied at the New York Academy of Art. In the
late 1930's he was one of six artists chosen in a competition by ACA
Galleries. He remained with the ACA Gallery until 1943 when he
was inducted in the army. Through a national competition
conducted by the Pepsi-Cola Company, his work was included in a
traveling exhibition 1943 through 1944 and was seen at the Metropolitan
Museum, Carnegie Institute, San Francisco Museum, Los Angeles County
Museum, Cleveland Museum, etc.
His work was selected in a
national competition for inclusion in an exhibition at the Tupperware
Museum, Florida in 1956, and was included in the "First Cape Cod
Art
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