About Barclay Rubincam

  • Biography

    Barclay Rubincam (1920-1978) was born and grew up in Chester County,
    Pennsylvania, where he developed a life-long love for its charming landscape and fascinating history. Art was an early passion, and Rubincam spent hours drawing and painting murals, posters, and other decorations and projects during his school years.

    After graduating from Unionville High School in 1939, he attended the Wilmington Academy of Fine Arts (today the Delaware Art Museum) where he was taught by Gale Hoskins and Frank Schoonover, among others. He also studied with N.C. Wyeth in Chadds Ford.

    Army service during World War II delayed the start of Rubincam's professional career as a painter, but when he returned from duty, he set up a studio in his ...

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