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| Born in Philadelphia, PA on Sept. 25, 1888. Cornelia Barns studied with William M. Chase, John Twachtman, and at the PAFA. During her early years she was listed as an illustrator for the Liberator.
In 1912 she married A. S. Garbett in Philadelphia where he was employed by the Victor Talking Machine Company and author of the Victor Book of the Opera. Due to ill health, she was forced to live in a milder climate. Abandoning a successful career as a magazine illustrator in New York, she and her husband moved to California in 1917 and settled in Oakland.
For many years she was author-illustrator of a daily vignette in the Oakland Post Enquirer called "My City Oakland." Her illustrations were on covers of Sunset magazine during 1918-22.
A resident of Berkeley and Sausalito until 1939, Mrs. Garbett died of tuberculosis in Los Gatos, CA on Nov. 4, 1941. Much of her artwork was lost in a flood in the family home in 1946.
Exhibition:
Oakland Art Gallery, 1929. | Source:
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers (Fielding, Mantle); Artists of the American West (Doris Dawdy); American Art Annual 1917-33. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Born in Flushing, New York and moving shortly after to Philadelphia, where her father was a theatre impresario, Cornelia Baxter Barns attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then was active in California after 1920.
Some of her cartoons were focused on women's issues and were published in the Birth Control Review, The Masses, Suffragist and Women Voter.
She married Arthur Selwyn Garbett, a music critic from England and had one child, Charles.
Source:
Alice Sheppard, Cartooning for Suffrage
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