Biografie von Loren Roberta BARTON (1893-1975)

Birth place: Oxford, MA

Death place: Claremont, CA

Addresses: Los Angeles, CA

Profession: Painter, etcher, illustrator, teacher, lecturer

Studied: Univ. So. California; ASL of Los Angeles, with William Lees Judson and Rex Slinkard

Exhibited: LACMA, 1920, 1923 (solo),1926 (solo), 1928, 1937 (prize); Ariz. A. Exh., 1922 (prize), 1923 (prize), 1926 (prizes), 1927 (prize); S.Indp.A., 1923; Arcadia Exh., Cal., 1924 (prize); NAWA, 1926 (med.), 1928 (med.); Pacific Southwest Expo., 1928 (prize); Pomona Fair, 1928 (prizes); Santa Paula, Cal., 1941, 1947 (prizes); AWCS, 1941 (prize); NAD, 1945; AIC, 1945; Cal. WCS, 1945 (prize); Santa Cruz A. Lg., 1946 (prize); Clearwater A. Mus., 1946 (prize); Gardena, Cal., 1947, 1950 (prizes); San Fernando, Cal., 1947 (prize).

Member: NAWA; AWCS; NYWCC; PBC; SAGA; Cal. WCS; Fellow of the Royal Soc. of Arts, London; Cal. Soc. of PM; Cal. SE; Chicago North Shore AA.

Work: AIC; Calif. State Lib.; Los Angeles PL; NYPL; BM; San Diego FA Soc.; LACMA; MMA; Nat. Library, France; Wesleyan College; Phoenix, AZ, Mun. Coll.; VMFA; NGFA.

Comments: She was the great-niece of Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross. In Europe in 1929, she met and married Perez R. Babcock and the couple lived in Rome until 1937, when they returned to Los Angeles. She later married Jervis Russell Miller. Teaching: Chouinard AI, Los Angeles. Illus., The Little House, 1937; California, 1938; The Butterfly Shawl, 1940, and others. Also appears as Burton.

Sources: WW59; WW47. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 37; P&H Samuels, 25.