biography of Eliza Rosanna BARCHUS (1857-1949)

Birth place: Salt Lake City, UT

Death place: Portland, OR

Addresses: Portland, OR

Profession: Landscape painter

Studied: With William S. Parrott

Exhibited: Portland Mechanics Fair, 1887 (gold med.), 1888 (silver med.); NAD, 1890, 1900; Pan American Expo., Buffalo, 1901; Lewis & Clark Expo., 1905 (gold med.); State Fairs in Salem, OR

Work: Portland church (22 oil paintings); collections of Woodrow Wilson, Theo. Roosevelt, William J. Bryan.

Comments: Specialty: mountain landscapes of well known spots in Oregon, Alaska and California. A prolific painter, she was known as the Oregon Artist," and supported her family with her work. Postcards with reproductions of her paintings began appearing in 1906, among the first of their kind in the West.

Sources: Hughes, Artists in California, 33; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 21; Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists; Art by American Women: ...the Collection of L.and A. Sellars, 45."