Ellen Semple Barry

Ellen Semple Barry (née Semple; October 4, 1898 – June 12, 1995) 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.^[1] She was married to the playwright Philip Barry.^[2]

Ellen Semple Barry
Born	Ellen Marshall Semple (1898-10-04)October 4, 1898 New York City, New York, USA
Died	June 8, 1995(1995-06-08) (aged 96) Los Angeles, California, USA
Nationality	American
Genre	Portraiture, Theatre
Spouse	Philip Barry
Parents	Lorenzo Semple, Mary McAnerney

Biography

Ellen Semple was the daughter of Lorenzo Semple, a Southern lawyer, and Mary Semple.^[3][4]

Portraits hung in the National Portrait Gallery include Lady Bird Johnson, Archibald MacLeish and Eleanor Roosevelt.^[5]