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Alice Pike Barney : “Mother and Crying Baby” (1911)

Museum Quality Giclée on Fine Art Paper

  • Matte Finish does not pick up glare from interior lighting
  • Smooth Surface maximizes sharpness and preserves detail
  • Accent Borders display the artwork uncropped and ready to mat
  • In-house Printing assures artistic quality standards

Heiress to the Magnolia Whiskey fortune, Alice Pike Barney had the means to defy convention and lead the free-spirited life of an artist, musician, dramatist, salon hostess, and patron. She developed the inclination after meeting Oscar Wilde on his 1882 American lecture tour. He encouraged her to paint and write, contrary to the wishes of her husband, Alfred Clifford Barney, who viewed her art career as an unnecessary risk. The couple thereafter led separate lives, until Alfred, an alcoholic, died suddenly in 1902.

She received her first art instruction from Elizabeth Nourse, a student at the McMicken School of Design. Later residing in Paris, she studied under Carolus-Duran, Jean Jacques Henner, Jean-Joseph Benjamin Constant, Jean-Paul Laurens and fellow ex-pat James Abbott McNeill Whistler. She was also influenced by the Symbolist painters Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, John White Alexander, and Edmond Aman-Jean.

Working extensively in pastel as well as oils, she specialized in human subjects; portraits, costumed “types,” religious and mythological figures, with occasional forays into landscape. Her style is lively and evocative; infused with the joie de vivre of an artist unbridled by social expectations.

Barney shared her bohemian ideals with two daughters, who often modeled for her. Natalie Clifford Barney became a playwright, poet and novelist. She was the first woman since Sappho to openly write about the love of women (in a small volume illustrated by Alice). Laura Dreyfus-Barney became a leading Baháʼí teacher and philanthropist. She and her mother both adopted this peace-loving faith in 1900.

The Studio House, a villa on Sheridan Circle in Washington where Barney once entertained poets, playwrights, musicians, and presidents, was handed down to Natalie and Laura, who donated it to the Smithsonian in 1961.

Product Information

Expect crisp detail and vivid color from our giclée process fine art prints. We use archival pigment inks on cotton fiber paper to achieve a wide color gamut, deep blacks and beautiful tonal transitions. Unlike posters, they will not fade or yellow, but maintain their original quality for as long as you own them.

How to Frame

Historical artworks were produced in whatever shapes and sizes best suited the artists and their patrons, and these rarely correspond to the proportions of modern, mass-produced frames. Most reproductions sold on the web are cropped to an arbitrary standard, compromising the integrity of the original artwork. We solve this by using accent borders to make up any differences in proportion.

Framing may be as simple as inserting the print into a standard size frame with the borders showing. In many cases, our customers choose to have them matted. Borders allow space for framers to mount the print while covering little, if any, of the artwork. Our images are sized to provide desirable mat widths in common frames.

Sizes 9” x 12”, 12” x 16”, and 16” x 20” are designed to be matted in larger frames, such as 11” x 14”, 16” x 20” and 20” x 24”, respectively. Larger prints may be matted in frames of equal size, the borders corresponding to the shape of the mat. Where the artwork is unusually square or narrow, other sizes may be preferred.

If our sizing does not meet your requirements, we provide customization free of charge. Please contact us to discuss the details.

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Returns Policy

If you are unhappy with your order for any reason, you are welcome to return it within 60 days for a full refund. Please contact us and return your item(s) to: The Ibis 809 Grant Street Endicott, NY 13760

Your return will be processed on receipt.
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