Sculptor Roger Terence Barr was born to Clinton and Inez Barr in Whitefish Bay, Milwaukee, Wisconsin on September 17, 1921. He studied art in Wisconsin before enlisting in the US Navy during WWII where he served as a pilot and as the flight deck officer of the USS Fanshaw. He married in 1947 and divorced six years later.

After returning from the war, Barr studied and taught art in New Mexico and Los Angeles, California before moving to Paris, France where he opened his studio and school in the same building as the now famous Atelier 17. While there he taught at the American College in Paris during the early 1960s and was director of the American Art Study Abroad between 1959 and 1969. He married for the second time in 1959 and...