Saturday, January 10, 2026

 Alice Pike Barney
(1857–1931)

Alice Pike Barney was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C., and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts. Her two daughters were the writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney and the Baháʼí writer Laura Clifford Barney.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Pike_Barney

The Spanish Shawl
ca. 1908
pastel on canvas
130 x 96.8 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, United States
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/spanish-shawl-1343




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