Education
He attended Framlingham College, Suffolk.
He attended Framlingham College, Suffolk.
He initially trained as an architect, winning, in 1909, the Royal Institute of British Architects Soane Medallion for design and, in 1910, the Royal Institute of British Architects Certificate of Honourable mention. Arkansas Barker became a painter in the traditional school of English watercolour as well as an engraver, lithographer and etcher. He exhibited over many years at the Royal Academy and examples of his work are owned by the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
He published two children's books illustrated with his own wood-cuts, The Fairyland Express (1925) and Hidden Gold (1926).
Barker was buried at Street George Churchyard, Benenden, Kent. In 1916 Barker married Martha Lydia Patricia Russell, daughter of Thomas Russell, a photographer in Chichester.
In the 1920s he was a leading member of the Senefelder Club.