Ellen Semple Barry

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| birth_name = Ellen Marshall Semple

| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|10|04|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York, USA

| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|06|08|1898|10|04|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, USA

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| nationality = American

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| genre = Portraiture, Theatre

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| parents = Lorenzo Semple, Mary McAnerney

| spouse = Philip Barry

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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.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-12-mn-12251-story.html|title=Ellen Semple Barry; Prominent Portrait Painter, Wife of Playwright|date=12 June 1995|work=Los Angeles Times}} She was married to the playwright Philip Barry.{{cite news |date=December 4, 1949 |title=Philip Barry Dies; Noted Playwright |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D0DE7D9153AE53ABC4C53DFB4678382659EDE |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2015-11-10 }}

Biography

Ellen Semple was the daughter of Lorenzo Semple, a Southern lawyer, and Mary Semple.{{Cite web |url=http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl128.htm |title=Georgetown University - Philip Barry Papers: Collection Description |access-date=2014-06-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000902094732/http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl128.htm |archive-date=2000-09-02 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://records.ancestry.com.au/ellen_marshall_semple_records.ashx?pid=58163792|title=Sorry, this page does not exist - Ancestry|website=records.ancestry.com.au}}

Portraits hung in the National Portrait Gallery include Lady Bird Johnson, Archibald MacLeish and Eleanor Roosevelt.{{cite web|url=http://npgportraits.si.edu/emuseumCAP/code/emuseum.asp?style=single¤trecord=1&page=search&profile=People&searchdesc=QuickSearch+contains+ellen+...&searchstring=QuickSearch/,/contains/,/ellen+barry/,/false/,/false&newvalues=1&rawsearch=constituentid/,/is/,/2269/,/false/,/true&newstyle=text&newprofile=CAP&newsearchdesc=Related+to+Ellen+Semple+Barry&newcurrentrecord=1&module=CAP&moduleid=1|title=The Portraits|last=sysadmin|date=21 August 2015|website=npgportraits.si.edu}}

References

Category:1898 births

Category:1995 deaths

Category:American portrait painters

Category:20th-century American painters