Macena Barton

Artist Details

• First Name Macena
• Maiden Name Barton
• Alternate Name(s) Macena Alberta Barton
• Surname Barton
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date August 7, 1901
• Birth Place Union City, Michigan
• Death Date May 30, 1986
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
• Categories Muralist, Painter-Oil
• Training 1921-1925: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: student of
  1926: graduate work, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: student of Leon Kroll (visiting professor)
  
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History 1926, 1928, 1929, 1932, 1937, 1941-1943: Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; 1926: self-portrait
  
  1929: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  
  circa 1930: Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
  
  May 18-June 1, 1931: Knoedler Galleries, Inc., Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  
  1933: A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1936: Findlay Galleries, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
  
  1939: Half a Century of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  1930s and 1940s: Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, Illinis
  
  1946: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
  
  1993-94: New Woman in Chicago, 1910-45: Paintings from Illinois Collections, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois and Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  artist-members' exhibitions, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago No-Jury Society exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
   
  
   
  
   
• Collections Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois
  
  Union League Club, Chicago, Illinois
  
  University Art Gallery, Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois
  
  John Vanderpoel Collection
• Memberships Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago No-Jury Society, Chicago, Illinois
  
  circa 1935-?: Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Chicago Society of Artists, Chicago, Illinois
  
  Fellow, International Institute of Arts and Letters
  
  South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
• Awards 1927: August Peabody Award, American Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Sunday Morning
  
  1931: Chicago Woman’s Aid prize, Annual Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: Marie Armenguad
  
  1932: Chicago Woman's Club prize: Frances Hildes
  
  1945-1956: first prizes, Chicago Galleries Association
• Archive(s) Macena Barton papers, 1839-1985, 1914-1985; American Archives of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. link  
• Other Occupation(s) worked as a bank clerk at Continental Commercial Bank and as a proofreader to support her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Website(s) article by Jamie Shaw, "Re-Presenting Feminist Art: Macena Barton (1901–1986) and Her Representation" in Creating Knowledge, vol. 3, 2010
  
  essay by Wendy Greenhouse, PhD, on M. Christine Schwartz Collection website
  
  essay by Joel S. Dryer, Executive Director, Illinois Historical Art Project
  
  essay by Clarence J. Bulliet published May 11, 1935 in Chicago Daily News
  
  Wikipedia page
  
   
• Biography Had an affair with critic Clarence J. Bulliet.