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Name
Sid Barron
Died
April 29, 2006
Books
The Best of Barron
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His drawings were typically apolitical showing the views of the common person. They often contained a biplane with its landing gear falling off towing a banner with the words "Mild, isn't it?" and a striped cat, known as "puddy tat", leaning on its elbow holding a card bearing a wry comment.
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Biography
Barron was born in Toronto on June 13, 1917, the son of Daisy Hilda Wormald. His family moved to Victoria in 1919 where he grew up around the shipping port at Victoria’s breakwater. He began working as an artist in 1940, painting in watercolour and tempera (as he was allergic to oil paints). His painting subjects were harbours, ships and beach scenes.
Barron worked in the Canadian comic book industry during the 1940s before entering the world of editorial cartooning. Known as “the poet of the mundane,” Barron soon transformed into "one of the funniest and most stylistically distinctive cartoonists to emerge in the post-war editorial cartoon world."
Barron was married three times; he and his third wife married in 1977 and after numerous travels they moved to Coombs, BC in 1987 and opened their own studio and Country Gallery, which they operated for 10 years. Barron died at Mount St. Mary Hospital in Victoria, BC on April 29, 2006 at 88 years of age.
Collections of his work can be found at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, the Glenbow Museum, the National Archives of Canada, the Okanagan Heritage Museum and in private collections in Canada and the USA.
Education
1945 Meitzinger Institute, Detroit Michigan, USA
1941 Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, BC
1940 Private Lessons with Alan Edwards, Victoria
Solo
2010 Ship Shapes, Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria BC, Canada
1976 Sid Barron, Open Space, Victoria
1973 Sid Barron, Paintings and Collages, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1965 Mr.Sid Barron, Canadian Art Galleries, Calgary
1949 Sid Barron, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Duo
1992 A Lifetime of Explorations, Sid & Jesi, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo
1991 Sid & Jesi Barron, The Old School House Gallery, Qualicum
1983 Sid & Jesi Barron, The Little Gallery, Victoria
1981 The Art Gallery At The Crystal (Sid & Jesi Barron), Crystal Gardens, Victoria
1979 Sid & Jesi Barron, The Little Gallery, Victoria
1978 Barron & Jesi, Watercolours & Drawings, The Little Gallery, Victoria
1977 Sid & Jesi Barron, Santa Cruz, California, USA
1977 Sid & Jesi Barron, Majorca, Spain
Group
2011 Hobnob 3, Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria BC, Canada
2010 Wish List, Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria BC, Canada
2010 Hobnob 2, Polychrome Fine Arts, Victoria BC, Canada
1995 La Fleur Invitational Exhibition, The Old School House, Qualicum
1995 The Circle Show, Barron’s Country Gallery, Coombs
1995 Studio Show, Barron’s Country Gallery, Coombs
1994 Studio Show, Barron’s Art Centre, Coombs
1994 Arts & Crafts Jury Show, District 69 Community Arts Council, Qualicum
1961-66 Editorial Cartoonist for Maclean’s Magazine
1962 Editorial Cartoonist for The Albertan
1958-61 Editorial Cartoonist for the Victoria Times (Times Colonist)
1941-58 Commercial Artist, Neon Sign Designer, Illustrator for Educational Products Inc. Comics' Canadian Heroes, Union Steamships (Vancouver), and Billboard Painter (Toronto)
