Edith Barry | |
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 Self portrait | |
| Born | 1884 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | 1969 (aged 84–85) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
Edith Cleaves Barry (1884–1969) was an American sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer born in Boston Massachusetts.[1] She studied at the Art Students League in New York City and with Frank DuMond and Richard E. Miller.[2] Barry was the founder [3] and served as the director of the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine from 1936 to 1945.[4]
In 1939, during the Great Depression, Barry was employed by the US Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture to paint a post office mural, The Arrival of the First Letter – Kennebunk Post Office from Falmouth – June 14, 1775 in her home town of Kennebunk, Maine.[5]
- ^ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
- ^ McGlauflin, ed., Who’s Who in American Art 1938–1939 vol.2, The American Federation of Arts,Washington D.C., 1937
- ^ Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women ratites born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
- ^ Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985
- ^ Marling, Karal A. (1982). Wall-to-Wall America : A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression (First ed.). University of Minnesota Press. pp. 272 to 276. ISBN 0816611165.