Lot 748: Macena Barton (American, 1901-1986 ), 'Self-Portrait', c. 1974; oil/canvas, 30in. x 21in. signed and dated. Barton graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1924 and held one-woman shows there as well as at Knoedler Galleries and Findley

Macena Barton (American, 1901-1986 ), 'Self-Portrait', c. 1974; oil/canvas, 30in. x 21in. signed and dated. Barton graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1924 and held one-woman shows there as well as at Knoedler Galleries and Findley Galleries in Chicago. C.J. Bulliet, an art writer and subject of one of her portraits wrote: 'The 'moderns' sense her as an individualist, an egoist, going her unique way, untrammeled by the 'schools'. The 'conservatives' recognize her technical equipment and note her contempt for the 'isms'. ' In 1927, she earned the August Peabody Award at the University of Chicago, and from 1945 to 1956, earned first prizes at the Chicago Galleries Association. She was a Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters, and a member of the Arts Club of Chicago and the Chicago Society of Artists.