Duncan, Barbara (Barbara Doyle)

Barbara Doyle Duncan, a collector, curator, and promoter of Latin American art, was born in 1921 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her father was a businessman, and her mother was an artist. Duncan always maintained that it was her mother’s influence that led her towards music and the visual arts.

Duncan moved to New York City with her mother in 1925 after the death of her father. She attended Vassar College and majored in music. She left Vassar in the fall of 1943, as a senior, to live with her new husband, John C. Duncan, who was in the military and stationed in Fort Hood, Texas. Mrs. Duncan finished her Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar in absentia through the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor.

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