Edith Barry

Edith Barry
Self portrait
Born 1884 (1884)
Boston, Massachusetts
Died 1969 (aged 84–85)
Nationality American
Education Art Students League of New York
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]

References

  1. ↑ Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
  2. ↑ McGlauflin, ed., Who’s Who in American Art 1938–1939 vol.2, The American Federation of Arts,Washington D.C., 1937
  3. ↑ Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women ratites born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
  4. ↑ Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985
  5. ↑ 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.
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