Edith Barry

Edith Cleaves Barry (1883 - 1969) American sculptor, painter, illustrator and designer born in Boston Massachusetts.^[1] She studied at the Art Students League in New York City and with Frank DuMond and Richard E. Miller.^[2] Barry was the founder ^[3] and served as the director of the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine from 1936 to 1945.^[4]

In 1939, during the Great Depression, Barry was employed by the US Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture to paint a post office mural, The Arrival of the First Letter - Kennebunk Post Office from Falmouth - June 14, 1775 in her home town of Kennebunk, Maine.^[5]

References

1. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986
2. McGlauflin, ed., Who’s Who in American Art 1938-1939 vol.2, The American Federation of Arts,Washington D.C., 1937
3. Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women ratites born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985
4. Falk, Peter Hastings, Who Was Who in American Art, Sound View Press, Madison Connecticut, 1985
5. Marling, Karal A. (1982). Wall-to-Wall America : A Cultural History of Post Office Murals in the Great Depression (First ed.). University of Minnesota Press. pp. 272 to 276. ISBN 0816611165.

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