Albert M Barker

Place: Chicago

Born: 1874

Death: 1947

Biography:

Albert M Barker was an American artist born in Chicago in 1874. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1890 to 1895 and discovered that lithography was more suited to his drawing style. Barker served as the Director of Art Education for the Wilmington Public Schools from 1921 through 1929. He discovered lithography in 1926 and produced over 200 hundred works. His subject matter was often the rural Pennsylvania landscapes. Barker became an instructor at the School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia and earned a Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. He died in 1947.