Barbara McGivern (born August 15, 1945 – March 9, 2019), also known as The Gold Lady,[1] was a Canadian artist from Toronto, Ontario.
Around that time she got accepted by the Ontario College of Art and Design she studied under Canadian artists such as Graham Coughtry and Ian Carr-Harris.
She produced a series of paintings based on Impressionist works, with her own interpretation of The Barnes Collection, which was later shown at Musee Hotel Baudy in Giverny.
[4] Throughout the 90's McGivern was represented by galleries in Yorkville, Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton as well as Zurich, Berlin, London, Paris and Madrid.
In 1996 McGivern went on an off-road driving trip across the Middle East, following the British adventurer Wilfred Thesiger's path through the deserts of Oman and Saudi Arabia, covering 3,000 miles in eight days.