Featured Work
Exhibitions
April 25, 2025 - April 27, 2025
The Philadelphia Show 2025 – On View at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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News
Timothy Barr Featured in American Art Collector Magazine
September 28, 2022
American Art Collector - October 2022 / Issue 204
View the Article →Timothy Barr and Somerville Manning Gallery in American Art Collector Magazine
March 25, 2022
March 2022 / Issue 197
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Timothy Barr on Art Watch Radio
December 12, 2018
Painter, Timothy Barr and Director of Somerville Manning Gallery, Rebecca Moore talk about Barr's solo exhibition.
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Timothy Barr featured on cover of American Art Collector Magazine
October 4, 2016
American Art Collector Magazine September 2016 Visiting the Reading Public Museum in Pennsylvania as a boy, Tim Barr was captivated by N.C. Wyeth’s painting ...
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Timothy Barr finds great inspiration in the Landscape and serenity of rural America. His intimate paintings of stone walled farmhouses, centuries-old trees and domestic scenes embody the solitude and grandeur of pastoral life. While he is able to capture the beauty of the countryside, many of Barr’s compositions are the products of experience and imagination brought to life through study, patience and his sophisticated use of light.
“I’m interested in the contrast that light brings to a scene,” Barr has said. “It’s fleeting and needs to be slowed down with paint so we can love it always.” Barr’s paintings are imbued with the characteristics of Luminism, a late 19th century technique highlighting reflective waters, magnificent skies and heavenly spotlit pastures.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2024 Another Time, Another Place, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2022 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2020 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2018 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2016 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2014 New Paintings, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2013 Tilting at Windmills, Manchester Center, VT
2012 Clarity, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2011 Tilting at Windmills, Manchester Center, VT
2009 Heritage, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2007 Tilting at Windmills, Manchester Center, VT
2004 Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2004 Tilting at Windmills, Manchester Center, VT
2003 Edgartown Art Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2002 Newman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Newman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 – 23 In Nature’s Studio: Two Centuries of American Landscape Painting, drawn from the permanent collection of the Reading Public Museum, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA. Exhibition tour: Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY
2021 PAST | PRESENT | FUTURE, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2021 American Scenes: Timothy Barr, Randall Exon and T. Allen Lawson, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
2020 Contemporary Realism, Cavalier Galleries, New York, NY
2019 Summertime Salutations, The Edgartown Art Gallery, Inc., Edgartown, MA
2019 Cavalier Galleries, New York, NY
2018 Realism: Then & Now, Cavalier Galleries, New York, NY
2014 Man’s Best Friend – The Art of the Dog, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
1997 The Legacy Lives, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI
1996 The Legacy Lives, Lever House, New York, NY
1990 – 2003 Newman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1989 – 91 Golden Door Gallery, New Hope, PA
Galleries
Somerville Manning Gallery (Greenville, DE) – 2004 – Present
LewAllen Galleries (Santa Fe, NM) – 2021 – Present
Cavalier Galleries (New York, NY) – 2018 – 2020
Newman Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) – 1990 – 2003
Edgartown Art Gallery (Martha’s Vineyard) – 1996 – 2021
Trees Place (Orleans, MA) – 2003 – 2007
Tilting at Windmills (Manchester Center, VT) – 2004 – 2013
Golden Door Gallery (New Hope, PA) – 1989 – 1991
Museum Collections
Reading Museum, Reading, PA (2015, 2022)
Susquehanna Heritage Corporation – Zimmerman Center, Wrightsville, PA (2020)
The Baker Museum at Artis-naples, Naples, FL (2016)
Education
1978 BFA, Tyler School of Fine Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1973 Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, Erie, PA
