Biography
Barbara Stanger Mackenzie Smith (b. North Witchford, Cambridgeshire, UK 1902 - d. 1996) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art under Henry Tonks and mixed with the Bloombury Group set, like Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and David Garnett and the younger generation Trekkie Parsons, Elspeth Little and Julian Bell. Subsequently, Mackenzie Smith studied in France, where she met the artist and illustrator Pierre EugeneClairin (1897-1980), a lifeling supporter of her art. She painted theatre sets for example, The Queen of Cornwall by Rutland Boughton, an operatic production which was held in Glastonbury in 1924. She exhibited in London at the Leicester Galleries, the New Burlington Gallery, and the Royal Academy, for example The Moat, D'Arcy Hall, 1937 (623), the year her son was born, after she had married John Rodker, one of the 'Whitechapel Boys', as his second wife, 1936.
