Ellen Marshall Barry

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Ellen Marshall Barry (Semple)

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Birthplace: New York, New York County, New York, United States
Death: June 08, 1995 (96)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
Place of Burial: 200 Cedar Street, East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, 11937, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Lorenzo Elliott Semple and Mary Semple
Wife of Philip Jerome Quinn Barry
Mother of Private; Philip Semple Barry and Private
Sister of Lorenzo Semple

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About Ellen Marshall Barry

Ellen Marshall Barry (Semple)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Semple_Barry
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10343064/ellen_barry

Barry was an American portrait artist whose subjects included Dean Acheson, William S. Paley, Vincent Astor, W. Averell Harriman and Pablo Picasso. Some of her portraits are hung in the National Portrait Gallery.

Portraits hung in the National Portrait Gallery include Lady Bird Johnson, Archibald MacLeish and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Biography

Ellen Semple Barry was the daughter of Lorenzo Semple, a prominent attorney, who had given the couple a villa in Cannes, Villa Lorenzo, France.

She was the wife of playwright Phillip Barry (1896-1949), Author of The Philadelphia Story, Phillip Barry's play Holiday was said to be based on Gertrude Sanford Legendre's many adventures. Phillip Barry's papers are housed at Georgetown University and Yale University.

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Ellen Marshall Barry's Timeline

1898
October 4, 1898
New York, New York County, New York, United States
1923
August 8, 1923
Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York, United States
1995
June 8, 1995
Age 96
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery, 200 Cedar Street, East Hampton, Suffolk County, New York, 11937, United States