The University of Kansas
Spencer Museum of Art
Remembering the Family Farm
150 Years of American Prints
The Old Cart
Lithograph
Spencer Museum of Art, anonymous gift, 1998.0212
View full record Born in Chicago, Illinois, Barker was a professor of Archeology and did not take up lithograpy until he was over fifty (Adams, p. 64). During the summer of 1927, in Chicago, he studied lithography with the master lithographer Bolton Brown. Most of his lithographs concern subjects in the vicinity of his home in rural Pennsylvania. (Kraeft p. 139) Hubs for wooden wheels like this one were often made of elm because of its resistance to splitting. Sources
