Lucy Hayward Barker papers
name: label: Creator
content: Barker, Lucy Hayward, 1872-1948
label: Names
content: Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931
label: Names
content: McCargar, Eleanor Barker
label: Names
content: Tarbell, Edmund Charles, 1862-1938
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Maine
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Donated by Eleanor Barker McCargar, Barker's daughter, 1993-1994. Additions are expected.
creator: label: Creator
content: Barker, Lucy Hayward, 1872-1948
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter; Maine. An American Impressionist portrait painter, Barker studied with Edmund Tarbell, Philip Hale and Frank Benson at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston School. From 1898 to until her marriage to Roy Barker in 1906 she had a studio in Boston. After marriage and motherhood, she resumed her career in 1929 in Presque Isle, Maine.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.8 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1898-1992
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.barklucy
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Video recordings
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids
content: Inventory to selected letters prepared by the donor is in collection file.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A chronology and biography prepared by Barker's daughter, Eleanor Barker McCargar, entitled "Biographical Sketch of My Mother"; correspondence, 1890-ca. 1985, including letters from Lucy to her family, some written during her travels abroad, and other family correspondence, letters to Lucy from friends and teachers, among them Philip Hale and Edmund Tarbell; letters to Eleanor regarding her mother; and other miscellaneous correspondence; sketchbooks; color photographs of Barker's paintings; biographical materials; clippings; a photocopy of a catalog for the Portland Society of Art's 1936 annual exhibition,1936; and a video, Lucy Hayward Barker, 1892-1948 : American Impressionist Portrait Painter, by appraiser James B. Byrnes.