Halcyone Barnes

{{short description|American artist}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Halcyone Drennan Barnes

| birth_name = Halcyone Freed

| birth_date = March 31, 1913

| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, U.S.

| death_date = April 9, 1988

| death_place = Summit, Mississippi, U.S.

| resting_place = Woodlawn Cemetery, Summit, Mississippi, U.S.

| education =

| occupation = Artist

| spouse = Joe Barnes

| children =

| parents =

| relatives =

}}

Halcyone Barnes (March 31, 1913 – April 9, 1988) was an American collage artist and watercolor painter.

Life

Barnes was born on March 31, 1913, in Dallas, Texas.{{cite news |title=Noted Artist Halcyone Barnes dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/318764011/?terms=%22Halcyone%2BBarnes%22 |accessdate=February 15, 2020 |work=Enterprise-Journal |location=McComb, Mississippi |date=April 10, 1988|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}}

Barnes became a collage artist and watercolor painter. In the 1960s, she exhibited her artwork with Bess Phipps Dawson and Ruth Atkinson Holmes; the three women artists became known as the "Summit Trio".{{cite book |last1=Black |first1=Patti Carr |author-link=Patti Carr Black |title=The Mississippi Story |date=2007 |publisher=Mississippi Museum of Art |location=Jackson, Mississippi |isbn=9781887422147 |oclc=86090473 |pages=37–38 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D932HeqCSxgC&q=%22Ruth+Atkinson+Holmes%22&pg=PA38}} The three housewives were trained by Roy Schultz at Summit Junior College.{{cite news |last1=Luter |first1=Nell |title=Summit Trio only looked like housewives |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/184052334/?terms=%22Halcyone%2BBarnes%22 |accessdate=February 15, 2020 |work=Clarion-Ledger |location=Jackson, Mississippi |date=July 3, 1988|page=63|via=Newspapers.com}}

Barnes married Joe Barnes. She died on April 9, 1988, in Summit, at age 75, and she was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.

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