Collection: Alice Pike Barney

Alice Pike Barney (1857–1931) was an American painter and playwright from Washington D.C. During a trip to Paris in 1883, she met and began studying with Charles Émile Auguste Carolus-Duran, a master portrait painter, and later with James McNeill Whistler, who became her mentor. 

Alice represented a new social type: women who lived upper-class lives but did not conform to what was expected. She established her Salon in Europe and the United States and was part of the turn of century art scene in Paris London, and Washington D.C.