Ellen Semple Barry

Ellen Semple Barry was an American portrait artist whose subjects included Dean Acheson, William S. Paley, Vincent Astor, W. [Averell Harriman] and Pablo Picasso. Some of her portraits are hung in the National [Portrait Gallery (United States)|National Portrait Gallery]. She was married to the playwright Philip Barry.

Biography

Ellen Semple was the daughter of Lorenzo Semple, a Southern lawyer, and Mary Semple.
Portraits hung in the National Portrait Gallery include Lady Bird Johnson, Archibald MacLeish and Eleanor Roosevelt.