Lucy Hayward Barker

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Lucy Ellen Hayward Barker (born November 29, 1872 in Portage Lake , Maine , † November 16, 1948 ) was an American Impressionist painter .

Life

Lucy Ellen Hayward was born in Portage Lake in 1872 to Jarvis Hayward and Eunice Brown.

She first attended St. John's Academy high school in Presque Isle , then St. Catherine's Hall in Augusta . From 1892 to 1898 she studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston , with Frank Weston Benson , Philip Leslie Hale and Edmund C. Tarbell . Then she opened a studio in Boston where she painted and worked until 1906. In 1906, Hayward married Roy Barker and moved back to Maine with him. She lived in Presque Isle, raised and raised a family, and it wasn't until 1929 that she began painting again at the age of 56.

Lucy Barker died on November 16, 1948. Her grave is in Fairmount Cemetery on Presque Isle.

plant

Barker painted in the style of American Impressionism. Her works are in private collections and also in the collections of the University of Maine at Presque Island, Colby College and Bates College .

Her drawing of Alice Tobey is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art . Other paintings are owned by the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in San Francisco . A collection of her letters was given to the Smithsonian Institution by her daughter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lucy Ellen Hayward Barker. In: findagrave.com. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ Women's History Trail: Augusta Maine. In: umaine.edu. dll.umaine.edu, accessed February 11, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Alice Tobey. In: metmuseum.org. Retrieved February 11, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Lucy Hayward Barker . In: FAMSF Explore the Art . 2015 ( famsf.org ).
  5. ↑ Lucy Hayward Barker papers, 1898–1992. In: si.edu. www.aaa.si.edu, accessed February 11, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hayward Barker, Lucy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayward Barker, Lucy Ellen (full name); Hayward, Lucy Ellen (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American impressionist painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Portage Lake , Maine
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1948