1857-1959

Eliza Barchus, from Portland, Oregon, is well-known for her landscape paintings of Oregon, Alaska, and California. She painted well-known landmarks such as Mt. Hood, Mt. Shasta, Yosemite, and Crater Lake. Largely untrained, Barchus studied for a short time with William S. Parrott, a local landscape painter.

To encourage other women painters in Oregon, Barchus taught landscape painting classes for women at a reduced rate. Her paintings brought her and her family financial success and paid for construction on their homes in Oregon.

During her life, Barchus included her work in, and won medals at, local Portland art fairs and her paintings were included in an exhibition at the National Academy of Design in Ney York. Her work is in the collections of the Oregon Historical Society, Portland Museum, and the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley.