A Defiant Bloom: The Life and Art of Alice Pike Barney Alice Pike Barney, a name often whispered in the annals of Washington D.C.’s artistic history, represents far more than just a painter; she embodies a defiant spirit, a relentless pursuit of creative freedom within a society rigidly defined by Victorian constraints. Born in Cincinnati in 1857 to Samuel Napthali Pike, a successful distiller and a man deeply invested in the arts, an…