Barry Redlich ’55

Barry was born June 22, 1933, in New York City. He was the son of Solomon Redlich.

Barry came to Princeton from Columbia Grammar School. At Princeton he majored in sociology. He was a member of Prospect Club and the Student Cabinet of the Hillel Foundation. He roomed with Ludwig Gutmann.

After leaving Princeton at the end of his junior year, he graduated from Columbia University and worked for 10 years in the visual arts before concluding that a suitable field for his interests and skills would be librarianship. He earned a master’s degree at Columbia, then spent 32 rewarding years as the principal art librarian and bibliographer at the Newark Public Library.

Barry died Jan. 31, 2017. Though he never married, he had a 37-year rich and fulfilling relationship with an academic with whom Barry did much traveling and otherwise did as the spirit moved them — no problem when one considers the infinite offerings of New York City. Barry leaves no survivors.