don't know who Alice Pike Barney is; but it's clear she was an absolute badass painter at a time women were barely getting the respect we deserve as artists... as long as you were of a certain class and hue.
anyway, this painting is from 1906. she is in a very fin de siècle gibson girl get up wearing a "come at me bro" look on her face that's just priceless.
am totally digging this painting.
"Self-Portrait with Palette | #Smithsonian Institution
