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Barbara Johnson Zuber

Barbara Johnson Zuber (1926 - 2019) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, New York.  Barbara Zuber is known for African-American themed painting, child figures, illustration.

Born in Philadelphia, Barbara Zuber was raised in New York. She was the first African-American woman to graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Yale University - she also studied at the Art Students League and New York University.

She began a teaching career in New York public schools, community centers and at the Harlem Hospital in the Child Psychiatry Department. Her artwork focuses on celebrating the daily life of African Americans with an emphasis on children.

Her art illustrated the 1969 children's book Brown is a Beautiful Color written by Jean Carey Bond. In 1970, after briefly moving to Croton, NY, Zuber and her family moved to Troy, NY.

Zuber exhibited in the 1970 15 Afro-American Women at North Carolina A&T State University and the 1972 A New Vitality in Art: The Black Woman at Mount Holyoke College. She also has exhibited her work at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Gibbes Museum of Art, and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

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