Cornelia Barns
| Cornelia Barns | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Cornelia Baxter Barns September 25, 1888 Flushing, New York |
| Died | November 4, 1941 (aged 53) Los Gatos, California |
| Cause of death | Tuberculosis |
| Residence | Philadelphia, New York City, Berkeley |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts |
| Occupation | artist |
| Years active | 1910–1941 |
| Employer | Oakland Post Enquirer, Sunset Magazine |
| Organization | Socialist Party |
| Known for | Illustrations for the Masses, art editor Birth Control Review, |
| Notable work | Suffrage cartoons, birth control cartoons, socialist cartoons, "My City Oakland" column |
| Spouse(s) | Arthur S. Garbett |
| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | Charles Edward Barns & Mabel Balston Barns |
Cornelia Baxter Barns (1888–1941) was a feminist, socialist, and political cartoonist.
Cornelia Barns was born on September 25, 1888 in Flushing, New York, she was the oldest of three children born to Charles Edward Barns and Mabel Balston Barns. Charles Barns initially entered law school, but then explored the sciences before launching a career as a newspaperman for the New York Herald. While living in New York, he also earned a reputation as author and poet. By 1910 the family relocated to Philadelphia, where Charles Barns established himself as theater manager, and Cornelia studied art.
As educational opportunities were made more available in the 19th-century, women artists became part of professional enterprises, including founding their own art associations. Artwork made by women was considered to be inferior, and to help overcome that stereotype women became "increasingly vocal and confident" in promoting women's work, and thus became part of the emerging image of the educated, modern and freer "New Woman". Artists then, "played crucial roles in representing the New Woman, both by drawing images of the icon and exemplyfying this emerging type through their own lives."
Cornelia Barns enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1906, where she became a pupil of William Merritt Chase and John Twachtman. She has been mentioned as an associate of Robert Henri and his Ashcan school. Her work was honored by receiving two Cresson Traveling Scholarships from the Academy, which permitted her first trip to Europe in 1910, and encouraged another trip abroad in 1913. She exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and by 1910 was listed as a painter in the American Art Annual. In her mid-twenties she married Arthur S. Garbett, a British music critic working in Philadelphia. The couple gave birth to a son in Philadelphia, and is believed to have spent a couple years in New York City.
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