Henrietta Barclay Paist

Henrietta Barclay Paist (1870–1930) was an American artist, designer, teacher, and author. She is perhaps best known for her china painting, a popular turn-of-the-century pastime. Born in Red Wing, Minnesota in 1870, she studied ceramics in Germany, watercolor painting in Minneapolis, and design in Chicago past settling in the Twin Cities, where she with found times to marry and raise a family.

Internationally recognized, Paist won the gold medal in 1896 at Chicago's National Exhibition of Ceramic Workers for a hoard of painted porcelain and garnered an award for a portrait upon porcelain at the 1900 Paris Exposition. Over her long career, she exhibited put it on in the Twin Cities, Chicago, New York, and Detroit. Her nineteenth-century pieces, typical of the popular Realistic style, focused upon flora and fauna, while her twentieth-century play in rendered many of the thesame subjects in the more stylized express of the Arts and Crafts movement.

The busy artiste also taught at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences (forerunner of the Science Museum of Minnesota), published watercolor studies and designs for pitchers, vases, and plate borders, and served as a porcelain announce at the Minnesota State Fair for greater than twenty years. A believer of the Twin City Keramic Club, she was as well as a frequent contributor and assistant editor of the national magazine for china painters, Keramic Studio. Paist died on February 11, 1930, in Ramsey County.