About Thomas Barnett

  • Biography

    Tom Barnett was a late 19th and early 20th-Century painter and architect, active primarily in St. Louis where he was born on February 11, 1870. He studied architecture with his father and painting under Paul Cornoyer.

    Barnett was head of the architectural firm of J. P. Barnett & Company of St. Louis, but in later years devoted much time to painting. He earned the following awards:

    Gold medal for architecture at the St. Louis Exposition, 1904
    Bronze medal for architecture and painting, Portland Exposition, 1905
    First Ives landscape prize, St. Louis Artist's Guild, annually 1914-1925
    Scott Memorial prize, Artist's Guild, 1918
    First architectural prize, Cook County Court House...

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