Katharine Marie Barker

Katherine Barker Fussell née Barker (1891 - 1984), was an American painter. She was an native member of the Philadelphia Ten.

Barker was born in 1891 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, studying below Philip Leslie Hale, Thomas Anshutz, Emil Carlsen, Robert Vonnoh, and Cecilia Beaux.

In 1917 Barker was included in the Philadelphia Ten's inaugural exhibition.

In 1922 Barker married Howard Fussell gone whom she had three children.

After her children began researcher she resumed painting, specializing in nevertheless lifes, landscapes, and portraits.

Barker died in 1984.

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