Anne Meredith Barry
(1932–)
(–2003)
Anne Meredith Barry
1932–2003
Anne Meredith Barry (1932–2003) was a Canadian visual artist known for depicting Newfoundland and Labrador landscapes. Her paintings and printmaking incorporated bold colours, whimsical patterns, collages, and occasionally handwritten text.
Barry began to paint full-time after she graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1954. Her work was included in the City of Montréal Art Exhibition in 1969. Barry first visited Newfoundland in 1971, where she was captivated by the province's landscape and culture. She returned to Newfoundland permanently in 1986 and taught regularly at St.Michael’s Printshop and at Memorial University for painting, and printmaking. Barry and her husband purchased the former St. Michael's Printshop on the Avalon Peninsula's Southern Shore, where she continued to produce bold, expressive and highly coloured works that spoke of the vibrant land, water and sky until she passed away in St. Johns in 2003.
Barry's works were widely exhibited in solo and group shows across Canada and internationally. Her notable exhibitions include "Down North", which was curated by the Art Gallery of Newfoundland in 1998 and circulated nationally by the University of Toronto's Blackwood Gallery. The following year her work was featured in "True North: The Landscape Tradition in Contemporary Canadian Art" at the Kaohsiung Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
Barry was elected for the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1995 and received an honorary doctorate from the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1998. In 2003, she was awarded the Queen's Jubilee Medal for her support of the arts in Newfoundland and Labrador.