Born in Oxford, MA on Nov. 16, 1893 in the home of her great-aunt Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross. Loren came to Los Angeles with her family as a child and received her art training at USC and... Read full biography
Born in Oxford, MA on Nov. 16, 1893 in the home of her great-aunt Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross. Loren came to Los Angeles with her family as a child and received her art training at USC and the ASL of Los Angeles under William Lees Judson and Rex Slinkard. While in Europe in 1929, she met... Read full biography
Born in Oxford, MA on Nov. 16, 1893 in the home of her great-aunt Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross. Loren came to Los Angeles with her family as a child and received her art training at USC and the ASL of Los Angeles under William Lees Judson and Rex Slinkard. While in Europe in 1929, she met Perez Babcock whom she married. The couple lived in Rome until 1937 and then returned to Los Angeles where she taught at the Chouinard School of Art. She illustrated the books, Spanish Alta... Read full biography
Born in Oxford, MA on Nov. 16, 1893 in the home of her great-aunt Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross. Loren came to Los Angeles with her family as a child and received her art training at USC and the ASL of Los Angeles under William Lees Judson and Rex Slinkard. While in Europe in 1929, she met Perez Babcock whom she married. The couple lived in Rome until 1937 and then returned to Los Angeles where she taught at the Chouinard School of Art. She illustrated the books, Spanish Alta California and California in 1938. Her last years were spent in Pomona as Mrs. Russell Miller. She died in Claremont, CA on May 27, 1975. The subjects of her paintings and prints include depictions of California during the Spanish rule, San Pedro's wharves,... Read full biography
Born in Oxford, MA on Nov. 16, 1893 in the home of her great-aunt Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross. Loren came to Los Angeles with her family as a child and received her art training at USC and the ASL of Los Angeles under William Lees Judson and Rex Slinkard. While in Europe in 1929, she met Perez Babcock whom she married. The couple lived in Rome until 1937 and then returned to Los Angeles where she taught at the Chouinard School of Art. She illustrated the books, Spanish Alta California and California in 1938. Her last years were spent in Pomona as Mrs. Russell Miller. She died in Claremont, CA on May 27, 1975. The subjects of her paintings and prints include depictions of California during the Spanish rule, San Pedro's wharves, Chinatown genre, adobes, portraits, and scenes from her tra. Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940". Dictionnaire des Peintres,... Read full biography
Loren Barton - Artist Info
About Loren Barton: Books
Books & Publications (34)
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Santa Cruz Art League Statewide Art Exhibition Index, First through Twenty-Seventh, 1928-1957 (Publications in California Art, No. 12)
2015
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
547 pages
Arizona's Pioneering Women Artists: Impressions of the Grand Canyon State Directory Listing of 479 Women Before 1945 (Exhibition catalog)