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Barbara Fiske Calhoun (Isabelle Daniel Hall) was born on 9 September, 1919 in Tucson, Arizona, is an American cartoonist (1919–2014). Discover Barbara Fiske Calhoun's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

Popular As Isabelle Daniel Hall
Occupation comic book artist, painter
Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 9 September, 1919
Birthday 9 September
Birthplace Tucson, Arizona
Date of death 28 April, 2014
Died Place Brookside Nursing Home, White River Junction, Vermont
Nationality United States

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Who Is Barbara Fiske Calhoun's Husband?

Her husband is Irving Fiske (m. 1946 – div. 1976) Donald Calhoun (m. 1989–2009)

Family
Parents John Hall, Jr. and Isabelle Daniel Jones
Husband Irving Fiske (m. 1946 – div. 1976) Donald Calhoun (m. 1989–2009)
Sibling Not Available
Children Isabella Fiske (b. 1950) William Fiske (1954–2008)

Barbara Fiske Calhoun Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Barbara Fiske Calhoun worth at the age of 94 years old? Barbara Fiske Calhoun’s income source is mostly from being a successful cartoonist. She is from United States. We have estimated Barbara Fiske Calhoun's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income cartoonist

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1912

Around 1912, she and her brother A. V., who had tuberculosis, came to Tucson seeking the warmth of the desert and hoping it would cure or remit his illness.

John Hall Jr., was from Alabama, though he had been born in Jacksonville, Florida.

His mother, Lucy Herter Hall—a Yankee from Boston who also had tuberculosis.

After her husband, John Hall Sr., died, Lucy came to Arizona with her three sons, John, Richard and Harry.

John Hall and Belle met in Arizona during this time.

1915

A.V. died in 1915, and no longer needing to care for her brother, Belle finally felt able to marry John, a few years younger than herself.

1918

Belle and John married on March 20, 1918, and "Babs," from the Scots word for "baby," was born in September the following year.

1919

Barbara Fiske Calhoun (born Isabelle Daniel Hall; September 9, 1919 – April 28, 2014) was an American cartoonist and painter, one of the few female creators from the Golden Age of Comic Books.

She co-founded Quarry Hill Creative Center, one of Vermont's oldest alternative communities, on the Fiske family property, in Rochester, Vermont.

Isabelle Daniel Hall was born in Tucson, Arizona, on September 9, 1919, to Isabelle Daniel Jones and John Hall Jr., both newspaper reporters.

Both were scions of upper-class Southern families who uprooted after the Civil War and traveled West.

Barbara's mother Isabelle, called "Belle," came from Asheville, North Carolina, where she had modeled for the papers with her sisters Mary and Polly.

1920

Her father was caught up in a late wave of Spanish Influenza and died in February 1920, when Babs was only six months old.

1940

Babs attended art school in Los Angeles, moving to New York in 1940.

1941

During World War II, after showing her portfolio to Harvey Comics in 1941, Babs was hired to draw the comic feature Black Cat.

She was one of the few female comic book artists in the United States during the World War II era.

Living in the West Village, she met her husband-to-be, writer and playwright Irving Fiske, who suggested that she change her name to "Barbara Hall," which she did.

She signed her work "B. Hall" because female cartoonists were not held in high esteem.

Her next strip was Girl Commandos, about an international team of Nazi-fighting women.

This feature focused on Pat Parker, war nurse, a "freelance fighter for freedom."

While stationed in India, Parker recruits a British nurse, an American radio operator, a Soviet photographer, and a Chinese patriot.

1943

Hall continued Girl Commandos until 1943, when it was taken over by Jill Elgin.

Hall also created the Blonde Bomber (aka Honey Blake), a newsreel camerawoman, chemist, and crime-fighter with a sidekick named Jimmy Slapso.

The Blonde Bomber was a regular feature of Harvey's Green Hornet comics.

1946

On January 8, 1946, she married Irving Fiske and began to use the name Barbara Hall Fiske.

On April 10, 1946, she and her husband, both extremely unconventional bohemian intellectuals, used wedding money to buy the farm in Rochester that later became the artist's retreat and "hippie commune" called Quarry Hill Creative Center.

(The Fiske family do not consider Quarry Hill to be a commune. Homeowners sign an agreement with Lyman Hall Inc., the current owner of the land, that it belongs to the Fiske family and the corporation, And they pay a site fee. The corporation provides plowing, water and Trash removal, among other things.

1950

Barbara and Irving had two children: Isabella "Ladybelle" Joachim Fiske (born 1950) and William John Fiske (1954–2008).

Though she had given up drawing comics, to the loss of the world of cartooning, she continued and developed the sophistication of her artwork in the mediums of egg tempera and pastel.

1960

In the mid-1960s, Barbara opened a storefront, The Gallery Gwen, in New York's East Village.

There Barbara showed her paintings, along with those of others, and Irving began to give public talks on Tantra, Zen, Sufism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and atheism, among many other things.

Hundreds of young people, including many who became well-known, such as Art Spiegelman (who dated the Fiskes’ daughter Isabella) and Stephen Huneck, began to visit Quarry Hill Creative Center.

Many stayed to build houses; Quarry Hill is now the oldest and largest alternative lifestyle group in Vermont, and one of the largest in New England.

She attended Vermont College and got an MFA in Art History during the 60s, and returned to Quarry Hill after a time of living in Randolph, Vermont.

1976

She divorced Fiske in 1976.

After a period of some tension, they reached a state of friendliness and mutual support, with the shared desire to see Quarry Hill continue.

With the assistance of her son, William, and others, Barbara created a corporation to own the land, Lyman Hall, Inc.

1980

Barbara also became a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Middlebury, VT during the 1980s.

They both lived at Quarry Hill into their 90s.

1989

In 1989, she married Dr. Donald Calhoun, a Quaker writer and sociology professor who had been her mentor at Vermont College.