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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Category:People from Summit, Mississippi
Category:American collage artists
Category:American women collage artists
Category:American watercolorists
Category:Artists from Mississippi
Category:American women watercolorists
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:20th-century American women painters
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