Chuck Barr Abstract Oil Painting

Item Details

Chuck Barr (American, 1929-2019)
Untitled (abstract)
Oil painting on canvas
Signed to verso

Chuck Barr was a jazz flutist and saxophone player, who had began creating art since in the 1960s. He is especially known for his multi-media sculptures made from found objects. Declared by the Post-Gazette as Pittsburgh’s “rambling minstrel” for his jazz performances, he also taught art at Penn Circle Alternative High School and Point Park Children’s School. Barr recently passed away in Pittsburgh on August 11, 2019, after a successful bypass heart surgery. Only recently has his work been viewed by the larger public; March of 2018 was his first gallery show held at the Irma Freeman Center of Imagination in Pittsburgh. Fitting to Barr’s personality and legacy, the last painting he sold at this show was titled Go Baby You’re Free.

Condition

- tear to canvas to lower left; craquelure with areas of lift across painting surface; stretcher marks; extensive accretion; scattered areas of paint loss, most notably to center of left and right sides; mold stains to left side.

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Item #

ITMG463397