Lucy Hayward Barker

Catherine's Hall, an Episcopal school in Augusta. She then studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; her instructors included Frank Weston Benson, Alger V. Currier, Philip Leslie Hale, and Edmund Charles Tarbell. Associated with the American Impressionists, she kept a studio in Boston from 1898 until her marriage to Roy Barker in 1906. After motherhood, in 1929, she resumed her career in Maine, working in Presque Isle. She is buried in that town's Fairmount Cemetery; her daughter claimed that she literally died "with a paint brush in her hand". One of her pieces is in the Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Portland. A collection of her papers, donated by her daughter, is owned by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.

Lucy Hayward Barker studied at School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Residence is recorded at Presque Isle. Work by Lucy Hayward Barker is recorded in the collections of Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

• Name — Lucy Hayward Barker • Born — 29 November 1872 • Birthplace — Portage Lake, Maine, U.S. • Died — 16 November 1948 • Education — School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston • Occupation — Painter

Lucy Hayward Barker was recorded at birth as Lucy Ellen Hayward. The authorities additionally record the headings Lucy Ellen Hayward Barker, Lucy Ellen Barker, Lucy Hayward, Lucy Barker and Lucy Ellen Hayward. One child is recorded: Eleanor Barker McCargar.