Katharine Marie Barker
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Katherine Barker Fussell née Barker (1891 - 1984), was an American painter. She was an original member of the
Philadelphia Ten The Philadelphia Ten, also known as The Ten, was a group of American female artists who exhibited together from 1917 to 1945. The group, eventually numbering 30 painters and sculptors, exhibited annually in Philadelphia and later had traveling ex ...
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Biography

Barker was born in 1891 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States. The academy's museum ...
, studying under Philip Leslie Hale,
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. In 1917 Barker was included in the Philadelphia Ten's inaugural exhibition. In 1922 Barker married Howard Fussell with whom she had three children. After her children began school she resumed painting, specializing in still lifes, landscapes, and portraits. Barker died in 1984.


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1891 births 1984 deaths 20th-century American women painters Artists from Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni 20th-century American painters {{US-painter-1890s-stub