Ellen Semple Barry

Ellen Semple Barry
Born Ellen Marshall Semple
(1899-10-04)October 4, 1899
Died June 8, 1995(1995-06-08) (aged 95)
Nationality American
Genre Portraiture, Theatre

Ellen (Semple) Barry (October 4, 1899 – June 12, 1995[1]) was an American portrait artist whose subjects included Dean Acheson, William S. Paley, Vincent Astor, W. Averell Harriman and Pablo Picasso. Some of her portraits are hung in the National Portrait Gallery.[2] She was married to the playwright Philip Barry.[3]

Biography

Ellen Semple was the daughter of Lorenzo Semple (a Southern lawyer), and Mary Semple.[4][5]

Portraits hung in the National Portrait Gallery include Lady Bird Johnson, Archibald MacLeish and Eleanor Roosevelt.[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10343064
  2. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1995-06-12/news/mn-12251_1_national-portrait-gallery
  3. ↑ "Philip Barry Dies; Noted Playwright". The New York Times. December 4, 1949. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
  4. ↑ http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl128.htm
  5. ↑ http://records.ancestry.com.au/ellen_marshall_semple_records.ashx?pid=58163792
  6. ↑ http://npgportraits.si.edu/emuseumCAP/code/emuseum.asp?style=single&currentrecord=1&page=search&profile=People&searchdesc=QuickSearch%20contains%20ellen%20...&searchstring=QuickSearch/,/contains/,/ellen%20barry/,/false/,/false&newvalues=1&rawsearch=constituentid/,/is/,/2269/,/false/,/true&newstyle=text&newprofile=CAP&newsearchdesc=Related%20to%20Ellen%20Semple%20Barry&newcurrentrecord=1&module=CAP&moduleid=1


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