Oliver O'Connor Barrett
Oliver O'Connor Barrett was a British sculptor, painter, graphic artist, educator, poet and composer, born January 17, 1908 in London, England and died in July, 1989 in Cwm Prysor, Trawsfynydd, Wales. He studied at Fircroft College in England but was largely self-taught as a sculptor. In 1937-38 Barrett carved a panel, The Temptation of St. Anthony" and fifteen keystones for a block of flats in Birmingham, England. The work was designed and executed in the almost cartoonish manner, a style that was to become one of the several styles that Barrett was comfortable in.
In 1940 Barrett moved to the United States where he settled with his family in New York City. There he taught at both the Cooper Union and Museum of Modern Art schools. In the ensuing years he lived in several American cities including New Orleans, Louisiana and Palm Beach, Florida before returning to Great Britain where he retired in Wales.
Selected books
- Cerf, Bennett, ed. illustrated by O'Connor Barrett Anything For a Laugh: A Collection of Jokes and Anecdotes That You, Too, Can Tell and Probably Have, 1946
- Barrett, Oliver O'connor ; Illus. By Richard Scarry, Little Benny Wanted a Pony, 1950
- Barrett, Connor, Myself Emerging; A book of sculpture and poetry" 1980
References
- Barrett, Connor, Myself Emerging; A book of sculpture and poetry" 1980
- Falk, Peter Hastings, Editor Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985
- Noszlopy, George T., Jeremy Beach, editor, Public Sculpture in Birmingham: including Sutton Coldfield, Liverpool University Press, Liverpool. 1998
- Opitz, Glenn B , Editor, Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986