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Macena Barton, Portrait, oil

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Macena Barton (American, 1901-1986 ), "Portrait of Jose Mojica", c. 1929; oil/canvas, 42" x 43", signed. Barton graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1924 and held one-woman shows there as well as at Knoedler Galleries and Findley Galleries in Chicago. C.J. Bulliet, an art writer and subject of one of her portraits wrote: "The 'moderns' sense her as an individualist, an egoist, going her unique way, untrammeled by the 'schools'. The 'conservatives' recognize her technical equipment and note her contempt for the 'isms'. " In 1927, she earned the August Peabody Award at the University of Chicago, and from 1945 to 1956, earned first prizes at the Chicago Galleries Association. She was a Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters, and a member of the Arts Club of Chicago and the Chicago Society of Artists, Exhibited: Art Institute of Chicago, 1929, Jose Mojica (Mexican, 1895-1974) was a well known singer and actor, and was one of Barton's lovers. REF: Chicago Modern 1893-1945: Pursuit of the New, Terra Museum Exhibition Catalog; Annual Exhibition Records of the Art Institute of Chicago, Falk

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