Ellen Semple Barry (née Semple; October 4, 1898 – June 12, 1995) was an American portrait artist whose subjects included Dean Acheson, William S. Paley, Vincent Astor, W. Averell Harriman and Pablo Picasso.
[1] She was married to the playwright Philip Barry.
[2] Ellen Semple was the daughter of Lorenzo Semple, a Southern lawyer, and Mary Semple.
[3][4] Portraits hung in the National Portrait Gallery include Lady Bird Johnson, Archibald MacLeish and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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