After studying in Chicago and Paris, he exhibited at the 1894 Paris Salon, where his work (including the “Struggle of the Two Natures in Man,” 1894; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City) created a sensation. Probably his best known work is a vigorous statue of Lincoln (Lytle Park, Cincinnati, Ohio), which was the centre of a storm of criticism when it was unveiled in 1917. Barnard made a collection of early Gothic sculpture and medieval architectural fragments that in 1925 was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.