ELIZA BARCHUS: AN ART HISTORICAL CONTEXT IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST AND BEYOND.

A talk by Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, Retired Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art, Portland Art Museum

Dedicated and persevering, Eliza Barchus forged a career as a painter, successfully supporting her family during the late 19^th and early 20^th century. Capitalizing on the stunning scenery of her home region and the American public’s growing fascination with the “way out west” she produced thousands of memorable landscape paintings. Laing-Malcolmson will discuss the artist’s influences, the challenges of being a women artist of her time, what Barchus’s Northwest contemporaries were doing, and what was concurrently taking place in the world of painting.