Landscape and portrait painter, draughtsman and teacher, full name Frank Barrington Craig, whose son was the artist Adam Craig. Barry’s father was the painter Frank Craig, the artist Leonard Campbell Taylor shared the family home and painting was a lifelong obsession. After studying at the Slade School of Fine Art, 1919–24, where his friends included Tom Monnington, Rodney Burn and Mary Potter, Barry Craig went to South Africa, becoming professor of painting at the Michaelis School, 1926–33, returning to London where he was a highly regarded teacher at St Martin’s School of Art until 1950. During the war he was involved in camouflage and received commissions from the War Artists’ Advisory Committee. Craig lived in London and exhibited at the RA Summer Exhibition, as a member of the NEAC from 1946 and RP from 1949, at the Goupil and Cooling Galleries, RI and elsewhere.