L.H.Barker~interpretive architectural and historical illustration

03/03/2026

Multiguild quilt show April 25 & 26 2026, Fulton Montgomery Community College, Johnstown, NY

11/20/2025

Highly recommend the well done, thought provoking & complex PBS series, "The American Revolution", by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt. Not the simplistic, biased history story taught in school!

You can watch all episodes from your PBS station.

Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States. Stream the full documentary from Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt.

08/14/2025

George Rickey, renowned metal & kinetic sculptor, @ Hyde collection/Glens Falls, N.Y.

Many are not aware he lived in East Chatham, NY about 45 minutes south of Glens Falls. Bob & I visited his place & his fantastic outdoor sculpture display in the 80s.
https://www.hydecollection.org/exhibition/george-rickey-across-time/

https://www.georgerickey.org/art/rickey-hyde

In partnership with the George Rickey Foundation, The Hyde Collection presents an exhibition of American artist George Rickey (1907–2002), a pioneer of kinetic sculpture. Rickey’s stainless steel abstractions, found in museum collections worldwide, mesmerize audiences with their sophisticated ge...

06/20/2025

My work in now in the NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE NETHERLANDS! Exciting news just received from author, Loulou Drinkwaard. Hooray!

I am humbled and remain honored to have been a part of this very challenging project & great team back in 2009.
I think the highlight of my long career has been my work placed in Library of Congress, lots of respected scholastic books, periodicals and articles.

Sub caption Dutch to English translation of my artwork: 2009 3D image by artist LH Barker, an imagination of the estate including Simon Overzee's plantation. I always appreciate proper credit!

Historical researchRotterdam has a significant role in our history of slavery, but that history is still mostly buried in international archives. Loulou Drinkwaard looked into the life of Antonio, a man who died on a Rotterdam plantation after repeatedly resisting a life of slavery. Loulou Drinkwaar...

04/19/2025

Short PBS youtube video of friend & colleague Frank Costantino's career & work. Very well done.

Youtube description: "For more than 50 years, architectural illustrator Frank Costantino has been bringing buildings to life with his meticulously hand-drawn project designs. A new exhibition of Costantino’s work is celebrated at one of Boston’s most storied institutions. Special correspondent Jared Bowen of GBH Boston takes a look for our arts and culture series, CANVAS."

The show featuring his work continues @ the Boston Athenaeum through May 3, 2025.

For more than 50 years, architectural illustrator Frank Costantino has been bringing buildings to life with his meticulously hand-drawn project designs. A ne...

03/03/2025

I still have not decided what of my website to put back online yet. I apologize for the delay!

03/03/2025

Always fun to learn about historic markers featuring one of my historical paintings. This time it 2 separate panels in 2 different locations with the 'landscape' view of George Washington's boyhood home, Ferry Farm in Fredericksburg, VA created in 2008 for the George Washington Foundation. I even received proper credit for the painting in both. Yeh!

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=81224
https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=148513

02/01/2025

Congratulations to my very gifted colleague & friend Frank Costantino on his upcoming show, Frank M Costantino: Visionary Projects, opening 2/3 (through 5/3/2025) in Boston!

Frank's exceptional work can also be seen on his website:
https://www.fmcostantino.com/

https://events.bostonathenaeum.org/en/exhibition-opening-or-frank-m-costantino-visionary-projects-5a2KUm3vy49/overview

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10/21/2024

Notice: lhbarkerstudio.com is no longer online until I can migrate to a new host.

I downloaded website backups from my host’s server to migrate (twice, 2 weeks apart in August) that had Trojan viruses in host folders which tried to attack my workstation 27 times. Gratefully, Norton 360 caught them eventually and put them in quarantine, but not before I did numerous, thorough custom, full system (1TB) scans. Grrrr.

After having to repeatedly show host/prove the issue for several months, they finally made what seems to be a clean, custom backup zip folder I can migrate to download several days ago. The server my website was on was decommissioned today. They are no longer hosting websites.

09/13/2024

American Society of Architectural Illustrators AIP 38 international competition info;
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanSocietyofArchitecturalIllustrators

08/27/2024

I will be moving/migrating my website to a new host in the next few weeks. There may be some disruption viewing my website and/or receiving email for lhbarkerstudio during that time. More about that process later…