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31: 256: 164: 248: 175: 367:, was becoming more socially stratified, and Barney's background as the daughter of a whiskey distiller and granddaughter of a Jewish immigrant had made her the subject of vague insinuations in the society pages. The gossip would have no lasting effect on the Barneys' social standing, but Albert considered it a disaster. His drinking increased, as did his blood pressure, and two months later he had a heart attack. His health continued to deteriorate, and he died in 1902. 193:. His father was a German Jew, and his mother a Dutch Christian. Alice Pike Barney's mother was of French descent. After the family moved New York City in 1866, he built what would become the Grand Opera House at Twenty-Third Street and Eighth Avenue. Barney was the youngest of four children and the only one who fully shared her father's cultural interests; as a child she showed talent as a singer and pianist. 371: 234:
As educational opportunities were made more available in the 19th-century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations. Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior, and to help overcome that stereotype women became "increasingly
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In 1911, at age 53, Barney married 23-year-old Christian Hemmick, the son of Roland J Hemmick, the ambassador to Switzerland. Barney had painted Christian's sister Katherine Marie Johnson. Their engagement resulted in worldwide press attention. They had divorced by 1920.
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Sings in Washington", rushed to Paris, where he bought and destroyed the publisher's remaining stock and printing plates and insisted that Barney and Natalie return with him to the family's summer home in
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in 1898, she was one of the first students. Whistler soon lost interest in teaching art and the school shut down, but he was a formative influence.
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on the beach; their conversation changed the course of Alice's life, inspiring her to pursue art seriously despite her husband's disapproval.
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Barney's father Samuel Napthali Pike, who had made his fortune as the distiller of Magnolia brand whiskey, was a patron of the arts in
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vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "
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happened to be speaking on his American lecture tour. Wilde spent the day with Alice and her daughter
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In 1882 Barney and her family spent the summer at New York City's Long Beach Hotel, where
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In 1887 she travelled to Paris to be nearer her two daughters while they attended
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Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris
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At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America
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Alice Pike Barney House at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
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Alice Pike Barney Papers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Alice Pike Barney Papers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Alice Pike Barney at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Barney had solo shows at major galleries including the
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Index


Cincinnati
Ohio
Painting
Natalie Clifford Barney
Laura Clifford Barney
salon
Natalie Clifford Barney
Baháʼí
Laura Clifford Barney


Cincinnati, Ohio
Pike's Opera House
Henry Morton Stanley
expedition in Africa
Lake Victoria
Dayton, Ohio
Oscar Wilde
Natalie
New Woman


Embassy of Latvia
National Register of Historic Places

Laura Clifford Barney
Marie Souvestre
Carolus-Duran
Claudio Castelucho

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