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THE SALEMITE
-February 24
BrandtExpoundsOnBarker;\^**'*^*'‘**'9^
TelkOf His Ufe And Work
Mr. Brandt on Mr. Barker
by Logan Vaught
“Chance certainly can make peo
ple’s paths cross!’’ Mr. Brandt phi
losophized, as he leaned back in his
chair, and, at the order of the in
terviewer, began to talk about Mr.
Barker. Mr. Brandt declared firmly
that he didn’t know exactly what
to say about his fellow art teacher,
but the “interesting angle” of their
friendship was their chance meet
ings.
Mr. Barker, born in Germany,
went to high school and Washing
ton University in St. Louis before
the beginning of the war. He met
Mrs. Barker, who is a fashion
artist, when she happened to be in
his art class, and they were married
when they were both twenty. Then
the war, and Mr. Barker began a
varied career in the Army as an
M. P.—in England, and Belgium,
a “sort of civilian-clothed investi
gator for the Army”, and a soldier
in the “Battle of the Bulge”. While
he was an M. P. he was sent into
Germany in charge of a group who
brought the German generals to
the allies to sign the surrender
papers.
Mr. Barker was chosen for Of
ficer’s Candidate School, but the
war ended and he returned to
Washington Universit}-. There he
became, in two years, their “out
standing pupil”, and, when he was
a senior, he won first prize in the
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many artists from adjoining states.
“Here, Mr. Brandt said, began our
series of meetings”. They happened
to be in the same class, and both
won prizes in the Missouri show.
Mr. Barker studied under Fred
Conway, Philip Guston, and Max
Beckman. When he graduated from
Washington University he won the
Milligan Travel Fellowship jointly
with Mr. Brandt. Mr. Barker got
his Masters in Fine Arts at Indi
ana University.
(Continued on page six)
(Continued from page three)
up on the sidewalks. They sell
pins, ribbons, combs, fish, mangoes
and pineapples.
The people of Trinidad are East
Indians. They are short people
with dark skin and black eyes and
hair. The women wear the original
East Indian costumes which con
sist of bright colored shirts and
blouses or big pieces of cloth wrap
ped around them in sarong fashion,
and a shawl. The men, who wear
regular American clothes, \v a hk
ahead of the women and make them
carry all of the bundles. When the
women are in the presence of men,
they must keep their heads covered
with a shawl. The people live in
mud huts with palm thatched roofs.
The huts are never larger than
three rooms, which must hold as
many as ten members in a family.
All of the pigs, chickens, dogs,
ducks and goats roam around the
yard.
Mohammedanism is the chief re
ligion. The countryside is filled
with small, one room temples to
Mohammed. These temples have
nothing in them but flowers and
a picture of a terrible looking man
with an elephant’s snout for his
nose and four hands coming out
from his head. The priests of these
temples wear rvhite sheets wrapped
tiround them. Every morning they
put fresh flowers, usually hibiscus,
in the temjjles. They also put vases
of perfume among the flowers. The
outside walls of the temples are
(Continued cn page five)
Barker Expounds on Brandt
Tells Of His Work and id
_ and managed the fir=f .
Here are the various comments
given by Mr. Barker on Mr. Brandt.
The first time I saw him was in an
art gallery in . St. Louis. 1 thought
that he was :i policeman off duty.
“He is the kinda guy that can
paint a picture or drive a car in
his sleep. He’s been doing both
so long that they’ve become auto
matic. Oh, he can teach in his
sleep too.
“His father was at one time
Ma3'or of Greensboro and owned
and managed the first profe3'o„,
League in the South. I think h
must have inherited his
spirit. *
“When he was in Italy the peoph
thought he was a Russian and \vhe„
he went to France they thought 1,^
was Spanish. He is sort of LatJ
that IS, he has a southern tempera'
nient. He fits in well in
tind Italy.
“Mr. Brandt has attended more
schools than anybody I know. The
list of them seems endless-Prap
Art Student’s League, St, Miguel
Washington University Sclmni’
.l,e„ l,„,y-.he„
Carolina and there are dozens of
others.
“Before the United States entered
the war he enlisted in the French
Army as an ambulance driver.
“He’s a good cook.
“He married a home town girl,
1 hey had lived in Greensboro two
blocks from each other for years
but hadn’t met. That seems im-
possible.
He s a humanist in his painting
you know, he has a definite sym
pathy for people of all kinds, but
he backs this up with an apprecia
tion of formal values. Critics think
he is very promising.”
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