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Barker Fairley

1887 - 1986. Born in the Yorkshire coal-mining town of Barnsley on 21 May 1886, Fairley came to Canada to teach & from 1915 on was a Professor of German Literature at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1957. He wrote a number of books, the best known [more]

About Barker Fairley

1887 - 1986.

Born in the Yorkshire coal-mining town of Barnsley on 21 May 1886, Fairley came to Canada to teach & from 1915 on was a Professor of German Literature at the University of Toronto until his retirement in 1957. He wrote a number of books, the best known being A STUDY OF GOETHE [Clarendon Press, 1947]. A critical champion of his contemporaries & friends, the Group of Seven, he founded The Canadian Forum in 1920. In the early 1930's Barker Fairley took up painting seriously & his spare, linear style & limited palette were to remain constant throughout the following half century.

Barker Fairley died on 11 October, 1986, in his one hundredth year.

Fairley's work focused on two genres : landscape & portraiture. LBFA has an extensive inventory of landscapes from all periods, including 20 pencil sketches from the GEORGIAN BAY SERIES of 1938, & one remarkable portrait of a scholar.































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