1) Alice Pike Barney, born in Cincinnati, Ohio on January 14, 1857 to October 12, 1931 (aged 74), was an American painter.
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2) In 1887 she travelled to Paris to be nearer her two daughters while they attended Les Ruches. While there, she studied painting with Carolus-Duran and Spanish painter Claudio Castelucho.
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3) When James Abbott McNeill Whistler opened the Academie Carmen in 1898, she was one of the first students. Whistler soon lost interest in teaching art & the school shut down, but he was a influence.
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4) In 1899 she began a salon on the Avenue Victor Hugo; regular guests included painters Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, John White Alexander, & Edmond Aman-Jean, & her art showed a Symbolist influence.
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5) The Alice Pike Barney Studio House (now the Embassy of Latvia) is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. She also provided illustrations in a chapbook, ‘Some Portrait-Sonnets of Women).
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6) Barney had solo shows at major galleries including the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Many of her paintings are now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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