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Roderic Westwood Barrett

Roderic Westwood Barrett (1920 - 2000) was active/lived in England.  Roderic Barrett is known for Figural large-scale symbolist painting, wood engraving, teaching.

"Roderic Barrett: Humanity's slender hopes shine through his formal paintings," obituary, The Guardian newspaper, November 30, 2000, by Thomas Puttfarken

Roderic Barrett, who has died aged 80, was a painter of great emotional, as well as formal, power, of rich symbolic suggestiveness and, above all, of deep humanity.

He was born into a radical, non-conformist family; his father, a conscientous objector, had been jailed during the first world war. The death of his mother, when Roderic was only 10, almost certainly contributed to his later melancholic predisposition.

His talent for drawing was recognized at St Christopher's school, Letchworth, along with his keen sportsmanship, and when he was 15, his father took him for interview at the Central School of Art and Design in London. Although formally too young to be considered, Barrett was accepted on the strength of his portfolio. He studied there until 1940, in particular wood engraving under John Farleigh, w   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4042 characters.]  Artist bio

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