Emily Newton Barto

Emily Newton Barto

Emily Barto working on a Federal Art Project mural, October 6, 1937.[1]
Born 1896
Patchogue, New York
Died 1968
New York City
Nationality American
Education Cooper Union Art School, N.Y.; Art Students League of New York, National Academy of Design
Known for Illustrator, writer, painter

Emily Newton Barto (1896 - 1968) was an children's book illustrator, writer, craftsperson, writer, and designer.[2] She was known for painting murals at Fordham Hospital in New York City, as a Federal Arts Project participant.[3]

Biography

Emily Barto was born in 1896 in Patchogue, New York (or possibly Greenport). In 1935, as reported in the New York Times, Barto was one of six artists selected by the Municipal Art Commission to paint murals for hospitals.[4]

Her sketchbook is in the collection of the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.[5]

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