Oceanside Gallery is pleased to be representing art from the estate of M. Barbara Ward. She taught art for many years in the Blacklick Valley School System in Nanty-Glo, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Marywood College in Scranton, PA. She earned a Masters Degree from Columbia University, New York, NY.

She loved painting outdoors, mostly with watercolor. She rarely prepared a sketch. Her images depict streams, farms and factories in and around Johnstown, PA. where she lived most of her life. Babs, as her family knew her, explored the translucency, freedom and spontaneity inherent to watercolor.

She admired the work of Charles Burchfield and August F. Biehle, Jr.of Cleveland. Their influences are reflected in her expressionistic style.

Babs was a very private person, spending her time going on "painting jaunts" or"messing around" in her studio.

Back of Dunnies, 6/18/61 $400.00 20.5 X 14"	Station-Watkin's Glen, Lake Seneca, New York , 7/18/61 $400.00 14.75 X 21.5"
	Coke Plant-Rosedale , 1/7/62 $400.00 13.75 X 20.5"