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Esmond Grenard Barnhill was a photographer active during the early 1900s. Born March 4, 1894 in Saludi, North Carolina, he became interested in photography at an early age and established his own business in St. Petersburg at age 19. Barnhill specialized in publishing postcards, greeting cards and pictorial photography from 1914 to 1932. Many of these were designed by using "goldtoning," a method of dyeing photos using uranium dyes. Barnhill passed away in 1987. Barnhill was particularly famous for his hand-colored photographs and paintings that depict the old Florida landscape.

Very little is known of Mr. Barnette and even less is known with certainty. Robert E. McNicoll, Ph.D, former professor of Hispanic-American History at the University of Miami wrote the forewords for the two book-length manuscripts in this collection. Dr. McNicoll believes that Mr. Barnette lived in Miami, Florida for a period of about one year prior to World War II.

Germane Barnes’ research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity. Mining architecture’s social and political agency, he examines how the built environment influences black domesticity. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Community Housing Identity Lab (CHIL) at the University Of Miami School Of Architecture. He is the 2021 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize winner, Rome Prize Fellow and winner of the Architectural League Prize. His design and research contributions have been published and exhibited in several international institutions. Most notably, The Museum of Modern Art, Pin-Up Magazine, The Graham Foundation, The New York Times, Architect Magazine, DesignMIAMI/ Art Basel, The Swiss Institute, Metropolis Magazine, Curbed, and The National Museum of African American History where he was identified as one of the future designers on the rise.

Art critic and historian, Virgil Barker was born in Abingdon, Virginia in 1889. He attended the Bordentown Military Institute, Harvard University and the Corcoran School of Art. Barker began his professional career in 1919, serving as special assistant for the biennial exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. At the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, he held the position of Curator of Paintings, and in 1920, he became director of the Kansas City Art Institute. Following this period of museum work, Barker began writing art history and criticism. He joined the Editorial Board of the Arts, serving as associate editor and later as contributing editor. Working as an art critic in New York during the 1920s, Barker "came to know well many of the many important American painters who gravitated toward Alfred Stieglitz and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and whose works dominated American painting between the two wars."

During 1925-26, Barker acted as foreign editor, travelling through Europe to cover exhibitions. The Arts, which ceased publication in the late 1930s, remains a significant record of the art and art criticism of this period. In 1931, Barker joined the University of Miami as a professor of art. Praised as a great scholar and superb lecturer, he became a popular teacher. Barker remained at the University for twenty-eight years and promoted the visual arts in greater Miami and the University. Barker wrote several reviews for the Miami Herald as well an article on the art of Vizcaya. In addition to teaching, he served as a trustee at the University of Miami and played an instrumental role in the establishment of the Lowe Art Gallery, serving as its first director in 1950. In 1951 the University recognized Barker's scholarship awarding him the honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Barker's reputation as a scholar and teacher also led to his appointment by the Carnegie Foundation to an American Studies committee in 1956. Barker's responsibilities included selecting slides and writing text on colonial American painting for art history courses.

Barker also contributed to the knowledge and interpretation of American art through his writings. Barker served on the editorial boards of The Arts and The Art Bulletin, Art and Archaeology, The Magazine of Art, and Art in America. He contributed articles and reviews to Art in America, The Magazine of Art, The Yale Review, Saturday Review, and other magazines. Barker's first book Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, published in 1926, was the first work on Bruegel written in English. In 1931 Barker published a monograph on Henry Lee McFee as well as A Critical Introduction to American Painting.

Barker travelled throughout the United States for ten years, surveying paintings in museums and private homes for his next book, American Painting: History and Interpretation, published in 1950. The work, which presents American painting within its historical context and includes original interpretations, received favorable reviews. Author, critic, and museum director Lloyd Goodrich described the work as "...the best history of American painting so far written...it will be the definitive work in its field for a long time to come."

Barker's final work, From Realism to Reality in Recent American Painting (1959) contains a series of Barker's lectures. He also wrote numerous biographies of American painters for the Dictionary of American Biography, and Arts of the United States, as well as articles on Colonial American painting and John Singleton Copley for the Encyclopedia of World Art. Barker was a member of the College Art Association, and Association Internationale D'Art. The University of Miami Lowe Art Museum organized the Virgil Barker Memorial Collection of American Paintings following Barker's death in 1965, and numerous friends and colleagues donated to the collection.

Although best known for his set and costume designs, Randy Barceló was also a dancer, photographer, interior designer, and all around artist. Born in Havana on September 19, 1946, Barceló left Cuba through Operation Pedro Pan at the age of 14. He studied art at University of Puerto Rico and in 1965 moved to New York where he enrolled in the Lester Pollard Theatre Forum School of Design.

Barceló began his career as a dancer and choreographer. At the age of 24 he worked as a designer for the Broadway musical, Lenny. In 1972 he designed the costumes for Jesus Christ Superstar and was nominated for a Tony Award, the first Hispanic nominee for costume design. He went on to design costumes for several on and off Broadway plays and musicals, ballet and dance productions, and operas.

Randy Barceló’s art work, primarily abstract and figurative sketches and paintings, have been shown in several galleries and museums including the Cooper Hewitt Museum, Hudson River Museum and Kennedy Center for Performing Arts.

In 1994, Barceló designed costumes for ¡Si Señor! ¡Es Mi Son!, choreographed for Ballet Hispanico by Alberto Alonso and Sonia Calero with music by Gloria Estefan. These were his final designs as he died of cancer on December 6th of that same year.

Randy Barceló’s Production Credits

Broadway

Ain’t Misbehavin’, 1978, 1988

A Broadway Musical, 1978

Dude, 1972

Jesus Christ Superstar, 1971

Lenny, 1971

The Leaf People, 1975 (costumes and make-up)

The Magic Show, 1974

Mayor, 1985 (sets and costumes)

The Night That Made America Famous, 1975

Senator Joe (never officially opened), 1989

Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Off-Broadway

Blood Wedding, INTAR Theatre (sets and costumes)

Caligula, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club

Cracks, Theatre De Lys, 1976

Lady Day, Chelsea Theatre Center

Mayor, Village Gate Theatre (sets and costumes)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1982

The Moondreamers, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club

“Phillip Morris Superband Series,” Beacon Theatre (set)

Rice and Beans, INTAR Theatre (sets and costumes)

Spookhouse, Playhouse 91, 1984

The Tempest, LaMama Experimental Theatre Club

Opera

L’Histoire du Soldat, Carnegie Hall (sets and costumes)

Les Troyen, Vienna State Opera

Lily, New York City Opera

Mass, Leonard Bernstein, Kennedy Center

Salome, New York City Opera

Ballet and Dance

Black, Brown & Beige, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, 1976

The Blues Ain’t, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, 1974

Crosswords, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre

La Dea delle Acque, Alvin Ailey for La Scala Opera Ballet, 1988

For “Bird” – With Love, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, 1984

Fuenteovejuna, Ballet Hispanico

Lovers, Jennifer Muller (sets and costumes)

Mondrian, Jennifer Muller (sets and costumes)

The Mooche, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, 1974

Opus McShann, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, 1988

Predicaments for Five, Jennifer Muller (sets and costumes)

¡Si Señor! ¡Es Mi Son!, Ballet Hispanico, 1994

Spell, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, 1981

The Street Dancer, Ballet Hispanico

Television

Ailey Celebrates Ellington, Alvin Ailey for CBS, 1975

Ain’t Misbehavin’, NBC, 1982

Duke Ellington: The Music Lives On, PBS, 1983

Film

Body Passion, 1987 (production designer)

The Cop and the Anthem

Cubanos (art direction and costumes)

Fat Chance (set and costumes for theater sequence)

Fatal Encounter, 1981

Secret Life of Plants (costumes for dance sequence)

Tainted, 1988 (art direction and costumes)

Los Dos Mundos de Angelita, 1984 (art direction and costumes)

Welcome to Miami (art direction and costumes)

When the Mountains Tremble, 1983 (production designer)