page_title: Cornelia Barns
section_title: Artist
hierarchical_section_title: Cornelia Barns / Artist
caption_attribution_description: English: "As They Pass By," cover by Cornelia Barns. the Masses, September 1913.
context_page_description: Cornelia Baxter Barns was an American feminist, socialist, and political cartoonist.
context_section_description: Cornelia Barns enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1906,  where she became a pupil of William Merritt Chase and John Twachtman. She has been mentioned as an associate of Robert Henri and his Ashcan school. Her work was honored by receiving two Cresson Traveling Scholarships from the Academy, which permitted her first trip to Europe in 1910,  and encouraged another trip abroad in 1913. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,  and by 1910 was listed as a painter in the American Art Annual. In her mid-twenties she married Arthur S. Garbett, a British music critic working in Philadelphia.  The couple gave birth to a son in Philadelphia, and is believed to have spent a couple years in New York City.
  Max Eastman,  recalled the early days in his assigned role as editor of The Masses, during which the following incident took place around 1913.
  "Cornelia Barns,  an elf-eyed girl with smooth brown hair, turned up with the picture that was brilliantly comic and not like anything else in the world".
  Cornelia Barns' artistic style relied on heavy crayon lines and a distinctive comic style in her portrayals of pretentiousness, social privilege, male dominance, and childhood innocence.
  In another work Max Eastman wrote,
  "[T]he drawings of Art Young and Cornelia Barns and William Gropper  were of their own intrinsic nature comic.  Captions here were unnecessary, or were at least a supplemental element––often, in fact, supplied by the editors in the office."
  "American Salon of Humorists" was a 1915 exhibit held in New York City at the Folsom Galleries.  It was organized by Louis Baury,  and Cornelia Barns was one the twenty-three featured artists.  She may have been a relative newcomer to the art scene of New York, but she was rising rapidly.
caption: "As They Pass By," cover by Cornelia Barns.  The Masses, September 1913.
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