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Edith Barry: Impressions of a World Traveler

Hear how Impressionist painter and world traveler Edith Barry's odd souvenirs became Kennebunk's Brick Store Museum.

Edith Cleaves Barry, founder of the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, trained as an Impressionist artist in France before dedicating her life to world travel. Born in 1884 and never married, Barry visited every continent in the world—except Antarctica—before her death in 1969. Her photographs capture the exotic worlds of turn-of-the-century Africa, China and the Middle East, while some of the souvenirs she collected on her travels may seem rather peculiar to us today. Cynthia Walker, Executive Director of the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, will share Barry’s remarkable life story, as well as some of the odd curios that became the foundation of the Brick Store Museum’s collection.

Program Series events begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Research Library of the Portsmouth Athenaeum, 9 Market Square, Portsmouth NH. Please call (603) 431-2538, Ext. 2 for reservations, as seating is limited. Program Series events are free to Athenaeum Proprietors, Subscribers and Friends, and are $10 for nonmembers. Series subscriptions are complimentary to new Friends for a donation of $25 or more at the door, or at www.portsmouthathenaeum.org.

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