Alice Pike Barney is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Alice Pike Barney as American painter (1857-1931).
Alice Pike Barney was born at Cincinnati in 1857. Her recorded nationality is United States.
The nineteenth century broke the academy's authority: independent exhibitions, dealers and the beginnings of modernism.
She worked as painter and artist.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in United States shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Alice Pike Barney died in 1931, aged 74. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
