Photo: Portrait of Albert Barrows, 1931, by Diego Rivera Born in San Francisco, CA on Feb. 7, 1893. Barrows was educated in the public schools of his native city and then studied painting with Armin Hansen in Monterey about 1915. He lived on the Monterey Peninsula for many years; however, most of his art career was spent in San Francisco. Barrows married artist Edith Hamlin in 1934 and divorced her in 1936. He taught at the CSFA in the early 1930s, but stopped painting in 1935 to concentrate on photography. His last years were spent in Marin County. He died in Kentfield on July 25, 1958. (http://www.californiaartauction.com/barrows-albert-winfield) One of Dixon's San Francisco friends in the early 1930s was Alfred Barrows, a brilliant mathematician, painter and writer, who offered periodic lectures at his studio on the mathematical properties of space division. Dixon often attended Barrows' talks. Barrows had suggested to Dixon that the artist Francisco Goya used the concept of space organization. Intrigued, Dixon would put tracing paper over reproductions of Goya images, analyzing linear dynamics and the relation of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines to each other in the composition, trying to discover if Goya had a system. But eventually, he decided that Goya's compositions were more intuitive. (From the Art of Maynard Dixon, https://books.google.nl/books?id=U6UzaYIfIT0C&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=albert+barrows+art&source=bl&ots=zJU8-ZUUwI&sig=82aRcrVMk6HDdrI59vJFpVMKsRg&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwin7tjch67TAhXjCsAKHT4gCR4Q6AEIeDAN#v=onepage&q=albert%20barrows%20art&f=false undefined

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