Gordon Barrick
The Artist and His Work
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Gordon Barrick was a graduate of The Cleveland School of Art, now The Cleveland Institute of Art.
Perhaps Gordon Barrick's most beloved art teachers was Frederick Carl Gottwald who taught at both the Cleveland School of Art and the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute for 41 years.
In addition, he studied for two years in New York, at the New York School of Illustration and at the Art Students League.
Artists under whom he studied included such notables as Thomas Fogarty, Frank Dumond, Dimitri Romanovski, Robert Henri, and Frederick Carl Gottwald.
Gordon Barrick inherited a keen appreciation of art and a desire to make it a life work from his maternal grandfather, John Baptiste DeRussy (1810-1897)
DeRussy studied art while in a monastery in Canada, ground his own paints, and traveled from city to city in this country as a portrait painter.
A self-portrait of John Baptiste DeRussy is shown at the right.
The oil painting below is of his daughters Eva and Caroline DeRussy.
