Ellen Semple Barry

Ellen Semple Barry
BornEllen Marshall Semple
(1898-10-04)October 4, 1898
New York City, New York, USA
DiedJune 8, 1995(1995-06-08) (aged 96)
Los Angeles, California, USA
NationalityAmerican
GenrePortraiture, Theatre
SpousePhilip Barry
ParentsLorenzo Semple, Mary McAnerney

Ellen Semple Barry (née Semple; October 4, 1898 – June 12, 1995) 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.[1] She was married to the playwright Philip Barry.[2]

Biography

Ellen Semple was the daughter of Lorenzo Semple, a Southern lawyer, and Mary Semple.[3][4]

Portraits hung in the National Portrait Gallery include Lady Bird Johnson, Archibald MacLeish and Eleanor Roosevelt.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Ellen Semple Barry; Prominent Portrait Painter, Wife of Playwright". Los Angeles Times. 12 June 1995.
  2. ^ "Philip Barry Dies; Noted Playwright". The New York Times. December 4, 1949. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
  3. ^ "Georgetown University - Philip Barry Papers: Collection Description". Archived from the original on 2000-09-02. Retrieved 2014-06-14.
  4. ^ "Sorry, this page does not exist - Ancestry". records.ancestry.com.au.
  5. ^ sysadmin (21 August 2015). "The Portraits". npgportraits.si.edu.


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