Florence Howell Barkley

Her brothers opened up a small shoe store, H.C. Barkley & Company, while she and her sister kept house.

[2] During this time, Barkley and her sister Helen began to create paintings of landscapes and floral arrangements in watercolor and pastel that they would submit to contests in the Mason County Fair.

Henri aided in the development of female modernism as his students applied his modernist ideals across different media.

She was friendly with several other notable female artists at the school, including Josephine Hopper and Henrietta Shore.

Originally titled "Landscape over the City", this work, priced at $100, was exhibited in Gallery E of the Armory Show in 1913.

[7] At the beginning of her career, World War I broke out and she stopped painting and worked for the Red Cross.

The Century Monthly stated that "the flaky style of Florence Howell Barkley is charming.